- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Against Quotes
On taking a stand, for better or worse.
Some quotes here take a stand on real-world policy debates, referenced only generically rather than argued in either direction. One recurring thread pushes back on the idea that the odds are stacked against women; read more at Me.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Lane
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played at White Hart Lane against Michael Carrick and Edgar Davids when I was 18.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Army I grew up in was focused on high-intensity conflict against a peer competitor called the Soviet Union.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been against taxing diets.
- Games
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I watched many of Gigi Buffon's games and dreamed of scoring against him one day.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.
- Ethnic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Russian children typically hear racist and ethnic slurs against Caucasus natives at home before hearing it on the streets.
- Fields
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- Nov 07, 2020
Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cubism of Braque or Picasso, the dissonant compositions of Schoenberg or Stravinsky, the free-flowing and often erotic choreography of Isadora Duncan and Nijinsky - these were acts of rebellion against the certainties and traditions of the old world.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to act against the buildup of imbalances in the economy.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020