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The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.

There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck.

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.

And you can shove your apology. If it can come out of your damned mouth, then you can stand by it.

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

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

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.