- Itself
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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.
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- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have nothing against tricep kickbacks, but I'd rather have you do a skater's lunge with a kickback and get a lower body workout.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against spending money to record.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Plan Colombia came the Colombian Free Trade Agreement. Hillary Clinton opposed the treaty when she was running against Barack Obama in 2008 but then supported it as secretary of state.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hillary Clinton became secretary of state under Barack Obama. It's hard to convey just how stunningly cynical she has been on Colombia: In 2008, running against Obama, she opposed, in unambiguous terms, a free-trade deal with Colombia.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within days of Richard Nixon's inauguration in January 1969, national-security adviser Kissinger asked the Pentagon to lay out his bombing options in Indochina. The previous president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, had suspended his own bombing campaign against North Vietnam in hopes of negotiating a broader cease-fire.
- Clever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've become accustomed to playing against four defenders throughout my career, but in Italy, I have to play against five.
- Terrorism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.
- Sensible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020