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It's hard for me to accept the argument that millennials are not watching TV. I'm not one to believe that our culture of TV consumption is changing dramatically. It's just how we consume and where we consume it that's changing.
Nancy Dubuc
Me
Culture
Argument
Believe
Changing
Our
Dramatically
TV
Consume
Consumption
Accept
How
Just
Where
Hard
Millennials
Watching
Watching Tv
Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
Nancy Gibbs
Love
Politics
Man
Argument
Rand
He
Invitation
Most
Calling
Suspect
Interesting
Paul
We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
Narendra Modi
Religion
Terrorism
You
Will
Argument
Comprehensive
Between
Clearly
Pass
Isolate
Terrorist
Terrorists
Least
Establish
Convention
Interchange
Should
View
Use
Who
International
Whom
International Terrorism
Need
I think probably, you know, from my perspective, the folks who say a sitting president cannot be indicted have the better of the argument that the president can't be indicted - put, you know, through a criminal trial while he is president - and that the proper way to do it is to impeach him first, remove him, and then seek criminal prosecution.
Neal Katyal
You
Better
Perspective
Argument
First
Remove
Think
President
Criminal
Way
Trial
Say
Folks
Seek
Indicted
Proper
Through
He
Put
Prosecution
Know
Him
Sitting
Cannot
While
Then
Who
Justice Scalia was usually particularly challenging to me at oral argument, but I so respected his intellect and commitment to the pursuit of truth.
Neal Katyal
Truth
Me
Justice
Commitment
Argument
Respected
Pursuit
Particularly
His
Intellect
Oral
Challenging
Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religion
You
Science
People
Argument
Those
Embrace
Religious
Some
Religious People
Vocal
More
Small
Most
Got
Issue
Impression
Very
Than
America
Just
Happen
Them
Declare
Who
Fully
Actually
Fraction
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
Newt Gingrich
Money
Argument
Would
Would-Be
Tainted
Idea
Industry
Accepting
Private
Sources
Essentially
Congressman
Socialist
Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.
Nicholas Kristof
People
Made
Argument
Incredibly
Once
Intuitively
More
Rational
Tend
Individual
Through
Emotional
Open
Powerful
Journalists
Know
Scientists
Brain
Discovering
Stories
Which
Storytelling
Connection
Portals
One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with two million kids running the XO? And the answer is yes. We want kids connected and the largest possible number is the goal.
Nicholas Negroponte
Better
Argument
Kids
Possible
Running
Windows
Could
Answer
Goal
Yes
Want
Connected
Largest
Million
Here
Number
Two
During Seattle's successful campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage, our opponents would sometimes roll their eyes and snort, 'If $15 is so good, why not $50?' It was a straw man argument: Nobody was proposing a $50 minimum wage; it would have been too high, and we said so.
Nick Hanauer
Good
Man
Eyes
Sometimes
Argument
Too
Our
Minimum
Minimum Wage
High
Would
Proposing
Nobody
Hour
Said
Opponents
Wage
Been
Campaign
Roll
Successful
Straw
Why
Why Not
Seattle
She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal, and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement. Mrs. Thatcher thought she could trap them with the carbon emissions argument.
Nigel Lawson
Thought
Argument
Building
Energy
Favour
Emissions
Could
Main
Environment
She
Felt
Came
Opposition
Up
Thatcher
Dependence
Dependent
Movement
Break
Them
Should
Coal
Trap
Carbon
Nuclear
Nuclear Energy
Britain
In terms of the arguments, I think the pro-Leave campaign is winning them all.
Nigel Lawson
Argument
Think
Winning
Terms
Campaign
Them
John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.
Norodom Sihanouk
Me
Protection
Organization
Argument
Exhausted
Every
State
Secretary
East
East Asia
John
Had
He
Cambodia
His
South
Place
Asia
Capacity
Persuade
Foster
Treaty
In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
Octavio Paz
Walk
Space
Delay
Argument
Machine
Take
Becomes
Duchamp
Begins
Irony
Movement
Form
Works
I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.
Patton Oswalt
Sad
Good
People
Argument
Some
Pretty
Pretty Good
Fact
Emotion
Never
Had
Come
Always
Up
Where
Regretted
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
Paul Bloom
Good
Gay
Marriage
People
Abortion
Some People
Argument
Gay Marriage
Carry
Moral
Find
Insight
Some
Unreliable
Fact
Weight
Source
Cloning
Irrationality
May
Human
Disgust
Disgusting
Human Cloning
Against
Should
Acts
An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.
Paul Davies
Life
Natural
Competition
Argument
Own
Once
Earth
Would
Would-Be
Direct
Given
Through
Selection
Host
Know
Another
Became
Were
Any
Often
Confined
Established
Form
Little
Natural Selection
Regular
Niche
Why
Eliminated
Every time we get into an argument about cooking or laundering shirts, she shakes her Oscar at me, and I'm dead in the water. It would be a great equalizer now after 33 years.
Paul Newman
Time
Great
Me
Cooking
Water
Argument
Every
Every Time
Would
Would-Be
About
Shakes
Dead
She
Equalizer
Years
Shirts
Get
After
Now
Her
Oscar
Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam.
Pauline Neville-Jones
Work
Argument
Islam
Think
Say
Extremists
Those
More
Advanced
Wrong
Mainstream
Like
Course
West
Very
Than
Same
Irreconcilable
Common
Eternally
Might
Who
Need
We all want our border to be secure. However, certain individuals use this argument to stop us from ever enacting immigration reform.
Pete Gallego
Immigration
Argument
Our
Secure
Border
Immigration Reform
Individuals
However
Reform
Stop
Want
Us
Certain
Use
Ever
Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.
Peter Arnett
War
You
Challenge
Argument
Oppose
Back
Our
States
Those
About
Civilian
Civilian Casualties
Casualties
Develop
Policy
Forces
Iraqi
Reports
Going
Who
Helps
United
United States
Here
Resistance
Candidate Trump had previously opined that 'Islam hates us' and had called for 'the total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,' an argument he has since modified and moderated.
Peter Bergen
Argument
Islam
Complete
States
Entering
Muslims
Hates
Total
Had
He
Since
Trump
Candidate
Us
Modified
United
United States
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
Peter L. Berger
Religion
Mistake
Argument
Think
Other
Our
About
More
Most
Wrote
Underlying
Go
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Modernity
Modernization
I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.
Peter Scott
Training
Argument
Back
Months
Fact
Had
Disappointed
Suppose
Come
Forced
Korea
Australia
Won
Very
Grenade
In Fact
Twelve
Injured
Consequently
There have been a lot of critiques of the finance industry's having possibly foisted subprime mortgages on unknowing buyers, and a lot of those kinds of arguments are even more powerful when used against college administrators who are probably in some ways engaged in equally misleading advertising.
Peter Thiel
Finance
College
Argument
Ways
Those
Possibly
Administrators
Kinds
Some
Having
More
Misleading
Mortgages
Powerful
Advertising
Industry
Equally
Been
Lot
Against
Engaged
Used
Who
Even
Buyers
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Phyllis McGinley
Me
Fool
Mind
Argument
Conviction
Though
Kingdom
Facts
Armed
Come
Adversary
Merry
Protect
Him
Calls
Opinion
Providence
Dominion
May
Lacks
Where
Prejudice
Reason
Who
Whose
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