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Letter "C" » controversy
«In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves»
«The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.»
Author: Edgar Z. Friedenberg
(Critic, Educator, Sociologist)
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«The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.»
Author: Geoffrey Fisher
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«My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset.»
«It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
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«Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.»
«It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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«Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.»
«The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy»
«The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.»
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