“ When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. ”
- Lyman Beecher- Copy
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“ The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. ”
- George Herbert- Copy
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“ I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
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“ If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ All the Dover school board did was allow students to get a glimpse of a controversy that is really boiling over in the scientific community. ”
- Richard Thompson- Copy
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“ There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory. ”
- Kenneth Miller- Copy
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“ There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God. ”
- Richard Thompson- Copy
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“ The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break. ”
- Michael Douglas- Copy
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“ A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life. ”
- Henry Clay- Copy
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“ As much as things change, they stay the same. There is still controversy about, maybe even more than before, not just nudity a nude statue. ”
- Hugh Hefner- Copy
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“ Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. ”
- Freda Adler- Copy
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“ Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. ”
- Thomas J. Watson- Copy
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“ I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India. ”
- Amitabh Bachchan- Copy
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“ At the end of the day it was a guy from Nepal and a guy from New Zealand who conquered the world's highest peak for the British Empire,... Bannister's feat a year later meant as much to the nation if not more. An Englishman had finally got to the top of the mountain. ”
- Frank Deford- Copy
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“ I did not want to meet my queen in a wheelchair. I was on two canes, and I managed to follow the protocol, two steps back, curtsy, two steps forward, curtsy again. The queen pinned the medal on and was concerned about how I was recovering. It was a wonderful honor I will never forget. ”
- Anna Lee- Copy
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