- 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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- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any opportunity to throw against the Cardinals is going to be a good one.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Argentina against Brazil is the most important derby between national teams.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
- Any
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
- Calculating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.
- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020