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It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of… — Mary Hesse
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a… — Martin Feldstein
Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when.… — Gregory Benford
I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be… — Desmond Tutu
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. — Henny Youngman
Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but… — Tom Robbins
What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own… — George F. R. Ellis
Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My… — Emily Oster
Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible. — Michael Coren
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have… — George Steiner
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. — Jacques Derrida
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them. — Richard Eyre
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued… — Sam Harris
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal. — Charles Krauthammer
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. — Fran Lebowitz
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an… — Lawrence Lessig
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation. — Philip Massinger
Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly… — Camille Paglia
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that… — Shimon Peres
You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were… — Colin Powell

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