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In the Revolt of the Elites, he said we learn more from argument than from information, not because opinions are weighter than facts, but because to argue for your ideas (in public) puts those ideas at risk.

Jay Rosen: The Agitators: Notes From Day One of YearlyKos 2008

And the producers would do well to hire Eddie Murphy's latex man for the recreations of Ms. Smith's more, um, weighter scenes.

Anna. Ann Althouse 2007

These obligations, it was argued, were weighter than the 'rights' of, for example, property or profit.

Great apes, rights and the moral imagination Burke's Corner 2007

These obligations, it was argued, were weighter than the 'rights' of, for example, property or profit.

Archive 2007-03-01 Burke's Corner 2007

And furthermore the over-weighter will always have to diet more or less, and will have to have menus which he can continue to use.

Diet and Health With Key to the Calories Lulu Hunt Peters

Oh, sir, he is willing they should pay tithes of "mint and rue," but the weighter matters of the law, judgment and mercy, he would have them entirely overlook.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

Being stil cold all our men turned out to work son rise & that want a Nuf & they sent for every weighter [90] & every one that belongs to the rigiment -- a number of teams sot out down Home ward

The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes Abraham Tomlinson

Oh, sir, he is willing they should pay tithes of "mint and rue," but the weighter matters of the law, judgment and mercy, he would have them entirely overlook.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

The wheel-house up to this time had afforded some shelter to the men who ventured on the deck of the wreck, lashed as just explained, of course, to some pin or bollard; and even they had now and then to rush up the rigging when a weighter [Transcriber's note: weightier?] wave was seen coming.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

No weighter responsibility can any take, no more sacred charge.

An Autobiography Besant, Annie 1893