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I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.
Jonathan Krohn
Argument
Philosophy
Kind
Able
Stuff
Like
Policy
Get
Want
Depth
Meat
I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
Jonathan Mayhew
Good
People
Obey
Argument
Submit
Duty
Design
Add
Rulers
Direct
Proves
Proving
Contradiction
Contrary
Office
Public
Far
Public Good
Act
Apostle
Farther
Now
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Food
Great
Change
Simple
Made
Animals
Argument
First
Radical
Lasted
Babysitter
Great Change
Nine
Response
Weeks
Vegetarian
Wrong
Instinct
Couple
Became
Very
Which
Based
I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office of science and technology policy. But a lot of the people were lawyers. They like winning an argument, but science-based, evidence-based reasoning was just sort of not in their framework.
Joseph Stiglitz
Technology
Science
People
Argument
Science And Technology
White
White House
Framework
Lawyers
Winning
Physicist
Buddies
Like
House
Policy
Sort
Were
Lot
Began
Office
Just
Reasoning
Career
One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a 'neo-liberal' ideology which said that all we need to do to make this thing work is to get deficits low, keep inflation low, and take down barriers, and then everything would be fine.
Joseph Stiglitz
Work
Time
Failure
Inflation
Argument
Ideology
Down
Everything
Deficits
Would
Would-Be
Fine
Constructed
Take
Make
Said
Get
Being
Which
Low
Then
Euro
Barriers
Keep
Thing
Need
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Joyce Cary
Truth
Experience
Argument
Rather
Emotional
Emotional Truth
Than
Convey
Should
Novel
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
Juan Cole
Government
Balance
People
Political
Argument
Research
Some
David
Like
Academic
Sort
Accept
Impose
Predetermined
Should
A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.
Julia Bacha
Change
Try
Argument
Style
Difficult
Definitive
Seeking
Op-Ed
Issue
Nor
Provide
Historical
Overview
Create
Should
Film
Present
Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.
Julian Baggini
Faith
Acceptance
Argument
Nothing
Philosophy
Take
Blind
Methods
Truths
Authority
Establishing
Reason
Based
Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.
Julian Baggini
God
Me
Argument
Back
Strike
Back Up
Kinds
Cosmology
Case
Attempts
Since
Contemporary
Always
Traditional
His
Existence
Up
Anyone
Use
Games
Believes
Hardly
Basis
I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to reject my creator, as many religious people seem to think. I could no more simply decide to believe in God than I could decide to like beetroot, just like that.
Julian Baggini
God
People
Mind
Argument
Believe
Think
Others
Religious
Religious People
Seem
More
Could
Weigh
Simply
Like
Because
Than
Just
Decide
Decided
Certain
Reasons
Many
Creator
Reject
The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.
Julian Baggini
Result
Free
Argument
Become
Reflect
Own
Our
Entirely
Something
Rather
More
Facts
Freer
Make
Either
Capacity
Choices
Assess
When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.
Julian Fellowes
Needs
People
Made
Argument
Feeling
Jobs
Insecure
About
Put
Industry
Up
Cuts
Hard
Film
Film Industry
Funding
There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
K. V. Thomas
Food
Argument
Complain
Enough
Distribution
Some
Put
Grain
Census
Require
Use
Moment
Who
Figures
Population
Million
Many of us were raised without a father, and the subject of deadbeat dads hits home in a lot of areas. Most of all, doing a song about being a father to your daughter flies straight in the face of the argument that says hip-hop is misogynistic.
KRS-One
Home
Song
Father
Face
Daughter
Argument
Says
About
Area
Most
Without
Hip-Hop
Doing
Were
Subject
Lot
Hits
Being
Straight
Us
Your
Flies
Many
Dads
Raised
I used to be a wannabe Genghis Khan and will always be that. He never lost any battles. Then I swung to the other side of the spectrum and settled on Mr. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Now I realise I should identify myself with those who strengthen my argument.
Kamal Haasan
Myself
Will
Argument
Lost
Other
Settled
Side
Khan
Those
Battles
Never
He
Identify
Always
Any
Realise
Then
Should
Used
Gandhi
Who
Now
Swung
Strengthen
Spectrum
I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.
Kara DioGuardi
People
Argument
Big
Distinct
Record
Voices
Make
Very
Times
Hits
May
Biggest
Really
Who
Unique
Even
Right
Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
Karen Salmansohn
Relationship
You
Win
Try
Argument
Partner
Winning
Instead
Trying
Convince
Your
Right
Studies show when people yell, they get themselves even angrier. Interesting factoid: If you and/or your partner's heartbeat becomes higher than 100 beats per minute during an argument, you will not be able to fully understand/process what the other is saying.
Karen Salmansohn
Saying
You
People
Will
Argument
Partner
Other
Able
Minute
Per
Higher
Beats
Studies
Becomes
Yell
Heartbeat
Than
Get
Interesting
Themselves
Your
Show
Fully
Even
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
Creative
Fear
Decision
Argument
Other
Side
Out
Would
See
Had
Equal
Make
Sort
Being
Which
Reasons
Creativeness
Larger
Things
Belonged
Number
There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.
Kathy Ireland
Life
Good
Argument
Control
Birth
Birth Control
Come
Existence
Lot
Any
As Far As
Far
Found
The vast majority of people in academia, especially at the administrative level, have so little confidence in their ability to make an argument for their liberal cause, they choose to keep conservatives from making their own case at all. It's pathetic, cowardly, unconstitutional and completely predictable.
Katie Pavlich
Confidence
People
Cause
Argument
Cowardly
Own
Conservatives
Liberal
Administrative
Ability
Case
Vast
Vast Majority
Unconstitutional
Academia
Majority
Make
Making
Pathetic
Predictable
Little
Choose
Keep
Level
I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed the only question in my lifetime would be - how much further do we extend those values? I did not think in my lifetime we'd actually be having an argument about those values.
Keir Starmer
Rights
Dignity
Equality
Values
Lawyer
Argument
Human Rights
Think
Further
Those
Would
Would-Be
About
Given
Having
Only
Lifetime
How
How Much
Were
Years
Question
Did
Human
Much
Believed
Extend
Actually
We have to make the argument that the only economically sound place to be is within Europe - we have to remember, it's history again, that there are reasons we bound ourselves together as a set of European nations and it all came out of the second world war.
Keir Starmer
War
History
Together
World
Remember
Argument
Ourselves
Out
Only
Bound
Economically
Make
Within
Sound
Came
Nations
Place
Again
Europe
European
Reasons
European Nations
Second
World War
Set
Second World War
Every team boat will have its disagreements and arguments, but if it doesn't kill us or the boat, it will make us stronger.
Ken Wallace
Will
Stronger
Argument
Every
Disagreements
Make
Boat
Us
Team
The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.
Kenneth R. Miller
Saying
You
Science
Argument
Design
Every
Guess
Evolution
Well
Answer
Answered
Question
Intelligent
Depends
Basically
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