#gum

The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#american #american people #argument #being #comfortable

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#answered #argument #basically #depends #design

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#argument #collapsed #design #dover #intellectually

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#been #crime #fit #i #punished

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.

#argument #attempting #basis #eight #five

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. ↗

— Emmeline Pankhurst

#broken #modern #most #pane #politics

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. ↗

— William Wycherley

#confound #court #enough #intricate #question

Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him. ↗

— Bruno Schulz

#argument #because #bed #been #chess

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. ↗

— Norodom Sihanouk

#asia #called #cambodia #capacity #east

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. ↗

— Rebecca West

#argument #art #artist #audience #authentic