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You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?
Howie Carr

Long, Problem, Energy

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.
Jonathan Krohn

Philosophy, Able, Stuff

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.
Charles Vest

Fair, Hand, Rise

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
John Bright

Peace, Power, War

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'
Ray Combs

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.
Jared Harris

Parents, Lost, Role

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
David F. Houston

Through, Fact, Against

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
Jonathan Mayhew

Good, Design, Far

I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.
Kara DioGuardi

May, Big, Times

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
T-Bone Burnett

Christian, Means, Anyone

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South

Nothing, Prove, Greatly

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
Eddie Campbell

Him, Give, Remember

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
Ali Smith

Life, Good, Book

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
Juan Cole

Government, Political, Accept

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.
John Romero

Art, Together, Different

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
David Crystal

Strength, Thinking, Through

I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth.
Glenn Hubbard

Business, High, Growth

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.
Lloyd Norton Cutler

Made, Anyone, Duty

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Legal, Five, Months

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.
Michael McCaul

History, Reality, Remember

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
James Boswell

Find, Found, Obliged

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
David Herbert Donald

Person, Talk, Often

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, Islam, Same

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.
Pauline Neville-Jones

Work, Around, Violence

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.
Hans Rosling

Sleep, Someone, Thinking

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
William Banting

Life, Food, Diet

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
Cullen Hightower

Sometimes, Lose, Praise

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.
Dave Edmunds

Great, Truth, Boring

This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.
Dave Edmunds

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there.
Andrew Mitchell

Home, Start, Stop

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