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Letter "D" » dispute
«If one party resolves to demand what the other resolves to refuse, the dispute can be determined only by arbitration; and between powers who have no common superior, there is no other arbitrator than the sword»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
arbitration, arbitrator, dispute, one party, resolves, The Sword
«If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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come with, dispute, disputing, gain, in dispute, judge, on request, on the other hand, request, requested, Strangers
«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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controversy, dispute, exact, gains, good-tempered, good temper, in dispute, scores, shown, temper
«Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?»
«How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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dared, deflated, deflates, deflating, disputant, disputants, dispute, paragraph, paragraphing
«Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Immortality
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allowed, apply, contend, contended, contends, cry for, dispute, eternally, immortality, knees, toy, To Die For
«It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.»
«He could distinguish, and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. / On either which he would dispute, / Confute, change hands, and still confute.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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change hands, confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, dispute, distinguish, South West, TwixT, west side
«If you avoid rivalry and dispute, God will protect you.»
«In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
animal, animal rights, attempt, bull, determined, dispute, disputing, fevered, fiery, get by, in dispute, in fact, no-good, not for, principle, zealot, zealots
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