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“That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it, extending domination to every single corner of the earth and our Homo sapiens population to more than 6 billion - until no place is untouched by despoliation.”

Humans Long Has Beens Earth Century Long Time Population Corners Arguing Billions 20th Century Domination Homo Sapiens Extending

Author:Kirkpatrick Sale

“When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only to enable humans to manipulate it. I mean that sense of nature that Aldo Leopold had in mind when he said, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community, wrong when it tends otherwise.”

Mind Humans Mean Said Speak Community Integrity Understood Arguing Preserves Stability Manipulate

Author:Kirkpatrick Sale

“I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem.”

People Thinking Needs Country Problem Law Sound Attention Leader Media Offers Solutions Draws Solve Lawyer Arguing Bites Throwing Entertainers Sound Bites

Author:Ted Cruz

“It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.”

Names One Thing Arguing Foolish

Author:Coleman Barks

“Do good work and let that speak for itself. Don't waste time arguing with someone. Instead, show them in your work. That's easier said than done, but it really is the best solution. No one can argue with good work.”

Said Done Shows Speak Easier Waste Solutions Arguing Wasting Time Good Work Don't Waste Time Easier Said Than Done

Author:Megan Alexander

“Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.”

Years Together Crazy Members Arguing Family Together Super Awesome

Author:Milla Jovovich

“My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?”

Seems Difficult Views Brother Tasks Conservative Boxes Arguing Scripture Gods Will Conform Brothers And Sisters Repent Straightforward Unwilling Static Lifeless

Author:Gene Robinson

“I never argue with the tape. To be angry at the market because it unexpectedly or even illogically goes against you is like getting mad at your lungs because you have pneumonia.”

Angry Mad Arguing Tape Lungs Pneumonia

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.”

Evil Arguing Ridiculous Disputes

Author:Alice Hoffman

“I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people.”

“Fat people are brilliant in bed. If I'm sitting on top of you, who's going to argue?”

People Ifs Bed Sitting Brilliant Arguing Fats Fat People

Author:Jo Brand

“Offering 'comprehensive' reform usually means years of arguing and horse-trading among pressure groups to get anything done. By the time all the special interests are appeased or bought off, the resulting elephantine legislation typically looks nothing like what was intended. In short, big-government medicine usually doesn't work on big-government sickness. If President Obama wants 'comprehensive' change, it would be better simply not to spend any more money we don't have.”

“Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.”

Two Play Games Winning Strange Arguing Opponents

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.”

Should Government Involved Conservative Arguing Anarchy

Author:Dennis Prager

“We are Americans first, Americans last, Americans always... Let us argue our differences. But remember we are not enemies, but comrades in a war against a real enemy...”

Firsts War Real Lasts Remember Differences Enemy Arguing Comrade

Author:John McCain

“Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. I listen to NPR: "World to end-poor and minorities hardest hit." I like to argue with the radio.”

World Years Long Ends Lasts Poor Car Listening Agree Radio Arguing Hardest Minorities Last Year Npr Hardest Hit

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.”

People Has Beens War Natural Cases Dying Aids Arguing Disaster Epidemics Natural Disaster Aids Epidemic

Author:Nelson Mandela

“If we fail to achieve our goals in Iraq - which the administration defines as a 'unified, stable, democratic and secure nation' - it won't be the fault of the ink-stained wretches or even their blow-dried TV counterparts. To argue otherwise deflects blame from those who deserve it, in the upper echelons of the administration and the armed forces. Perhaps that's the point.”

Goal Failing Achieve Deserve Blame Democratic Arguing Armed Forces

Author:Max Boot

“The job of conservatives is to keep the Republican Party driving on the right-hand side of the road. There are many ways we do this. We argue, we publish, we lobby, we campaign for conservative candidates. Another thing we do is, when the GOP goes off the rails on really key issues - size of government, the National Question, Wilsonian adventures - we stay home on election day.”

“Some critics could argue that club or fun pop-y dance music isn't meaningful, when it totally is. All different types of music are meaningful depending on what people are going through in their lives at any given moment.”

People Different Moments Given Fun Type Music Is Critics Clubs Pops Arguing Meaningful Dance Music Different Types Of Music

Author:Darren Fletcher

“Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something specific. I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything.”

Want Shows Interest Novel Arguing Convince Thesis

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.”

Environment Creating Investment Arguing Openness

Author:Claudia Rankine

“I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these people." I might argue with them and I think that some of them might have misconceptions - that they might be infected by the intellectual laziness that is the foundation of American popular culture, and of capitalism, if you wish. But part of my job as a teacher is to work with that - against that.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Might Jobs Culture Wish Teacher Stupid Students Intellectual Capitalism Foundation Arguing Laziness Misconception Popular Culture Intellectual Laziness

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the way in which a progressive might claim that empathy is a crucial aspect of any benign political system, and the way a conservative might argue that not only is it not necessary, but it might not even be all that helpful, in that regard.”

Way Humans Mean Might Political Exercise Empathy Aspect Claims Regard Conservative Arguing Helpful Progressive Crucial Traits Usefulness Political Systems Benign

Author:Jim Shepard

“I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because that would cause the deaths of billions of people. It's certainly not something I'm willing to accept.”

People Thinking Causes Accepting Moral Position Willing Civilization Okay Arguing Billions Collapse

Author:Margaret D. Klein

“You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis.”

Stills States Remember Crisis Arguing Vigilant

Author:Michael Lewis

“Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen`s Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like any other rights. There are limits on your free speech and on your right to privacy. But he also made another nuanced Constitutional argument, that the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment must be balanced alongside the others rights guaranteed by the Constitution.”

Made President Rights Citizens Limits Speech Argument Constitution Arguing Barack Privacy Amendments Balanced Free Speech Second Amendment President Barack Obama Right To Privacy

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.”

Facts Film Television Arguing These Days Heat Regularity

Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol

“Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written, I would argue - it's because our "voicier" writers hew so closely to one given set of dictional tics that we as readers can't read the books all the way through in a single sitting, because if we did, the stories and their narrators would all start to bleed together.”

Ifs Way Book Stories Together Given Written Reader Sitting Very Good Arguing Collections Narrators Tics

Author:Roy Kesey

“When Steve Wise told me that he intended to argue in court before a judge that an animal could be a "legal person," it seemed like a novel, possibly far-fetched idea, but the more I thought about it, the more I became intrigued.”

Persons Ideas Animal Novel Wise Judging Court Arguing Intrigued

Author:Chris Hegedus

“Not only did I think that Sarah Palin doesn`t understand what post-traumatic stress disorder is, I thought she gave veterans a poor name by sort of arguing that this is something that`s common in our community.”

Thinking Names Community Poor Common Stress Arguing Posts Disorder Veteran Our Community Palin Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Author:Jon Soltz

“I was naming the five warriors of our generation who have experience, four out of five I would argue were retired early out of the [Barack] Obama administration because they said things the Obama administration didn't particularly want to hear.”

Want Said Five Four Generations Arguing Warrior Administration Barack They Said Retired Our Generation

Author:Carly Fiorina

“While lawyers are arguing about the PATRIOT Act or the America Freedom Act, the point is, the terrorists have moved on, the technologists have moved on, and we, the United States of America, are not taking advantage of the latest and greatest in technology the terrorists are. We need to get smart about it.”

Needs States America United Technology United States Smart Advantage Moved Lawyer Arguing Terrorist Patriot United States Of America Moved On Taking Advantage Patriot Act America Freedom

Author:Carly Fiorina

“I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.”

Should Kind Empathy Arguing Rational Reasonable Be Kind Compassionate

Author:Paul Bloom

“You might argue on utilitarian grounds that the best way for the world to work is for everybody to take care of themselves first. And people have made that argument. But I just think we would be so much better off if we could care for distant others even a little bit more.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Firsts Littles Made Might Would Be Care Bits Little Bit Argument Take Care Arguing Best Way Better Off Utilitarian

Author:Paul Bloom

“The question is, how do you stop the power elite from doing as much damage to you as possible? That comes through movements. It's not our job to take power. You could argue that the most powerful political figure in April of 1968 was Martin Luther King. And we know Johnson was terrified of him. We have to accept that all of the true correctives to American democracy came through these movements that never achieved formal political power and yet frightened the political establishment enough to respond.”

“You can argue that the Terminator movies reboot their world each time they go back in time, but that doesn't negate the value of Terminator 1 and 2. So I don't really feel that way.”

World Way Feels Values Arguing Back In Time Go Back In Time

Author:David Hayter

“It is more a mentality than the actual places people live, as Jefferson and Hamilton would argue about - city versus country. For example, someone could have an empty place mentality yet be living in a condo in Boca Raton.”

People Country Cities Example Empty Arguing Mentality Versus Hamilton Empty Places

Author:Gail Collins

“You know, yes, you can always argue that a backdoor can be built that's more secure, you know, and more difficult to get to and only law enforcement's going to get there. But nobody in the field of security believes that's ultimately going to provide this same protection that a tight end-to-end solution has without a backdoor.”

Knows Believe Ends Law Difficult Security Fields Solutions Built Protection Arguing Secure Law Enforcement Enforcement Yes You Can Backdoor

Author:Rod Beckstrom

“What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is exported to the world by the theocracies of the governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Just like the Catholic Church in the 17th century did religious propaganda to challenge the Protestant Reformation, these ideologies are trying to define the way Muslims express Islam in the world.”

“I see certain parallels between the debate over feminism where some women argue that women should not be forced to stay at home and take care of children [and debate about hijab]. And there are other women who are saying you are criticizing my decision as a free liberated women to stay home and take care of my children.”

Should Children Home Care Certain Decision Feminism Take Care Arguing Debate My Children Criticize Parallels Liberated Stay At Home Hijab Liberated Woman

Author:Ari Shapiro

“The biggest names in the Transcendentalist literary circle visited the community regularly, and supported it, but they couldn't live there happily. Hawthorne [who was briefly a resident] left for reasons I'm sure make sense to you; he couldn't get enough writing done in a house full of people playing music, and arguing. It was too busy.”

People Writing Reason Done Enough House Names Left Community Busy Arguing Circles Make Sense Too Busy Playing Music Residents Hawthorne

Author:Christine Jennings

“Because if you look at the debates now, and I have answered it except for 90 seconds by and large it's been viewed as every debate I have had I have been among the best people. And in some cases people argue the best person in those debates. I have been asked questions you never could have anticipated.”

People Ifs Looks Persons Has Beens Cases Arguing Debate Seconds Best Person

Author:Marco Rubio

“If some readers take away the idea that animals deserve better treatment in general, then I certainly won't argue.”

Ifs Ideas Animal Reader Deserve Arguing Treatment Deserve Better

Author:Robert Paul Weston

“The intelligence community, in particular the FBI, have been sounding alarms about this for more than a year. So to argue that suddenly we have to do this because of the San Bernardino case doesn't really pass the straight-face test. I mean, they've been talking about this. And to say, well, it will only apply to this case, that just - that doesn't wash. This is a major piece of public policy.”

Years Wells Mean Has Beens Faces Community Talking Cases Pieces Policy Particular Majors Tests Arguing Alarms Fbi Public Policy Intelligence Community Straight Face

Author:Angus King

“Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness of this moment. You can argue with it, but that's suffering.”

Way Moments Reality Suffering Arguing

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I don't think that we are capable of anything like this many possible colour responses. Instead I argue that the perception of colour differences between two surfaces viewed side-by-side is a gestalt phenomenon.”

Thinking Two Sides Differences Perception Capable Response Surface Arguing Colour Phenomenon Gestalt

Author:David Papineau

“Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including that one. That's not self-defeating, though; it only induces an important kind of epistemic humility and a clearer view of what we do when we reason. We engage in one more fallible human activity among many.”

Giving Humans Kind Important Self Reason Views Humility Activity Including Access Arguing Rational Conclusion Buddhist Analysis Infallible Human Activity

Author:Jay L. Garfield

“I would argue [Donald]Trump is the [Barack] Obama of this election cycle.”

Trump Election Arguing Barack Cycles

Author:Geraldo Rivera

“I intend Deaths in Venice to contribute both to literary criticism and to philosophy. But it's not "strict philosophy" in the sense of arguing for specific theses. As I remark, there's a style of philosophy - present in writers from Plato to Rawls - that invites readers to consider a certain class of phenomena in a new way. In the book, I associate this, in particular, with my good friend, the eminent philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, who practices it extremely skilfully.”

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