quotes about Disputes
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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
-- A.J. AyerSource : "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (Ch. 1), 1936.
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Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats.
-- Amr Moussa -
There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.
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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
-- Aristotle -
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Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite.
-- Bernard BolzanoSource : Bernard Bolzano (2014). “Paradoxes of the Infinite (Routledge Revivals)”, p.84, Routledge
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.
-- Charles Churchill -
Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184
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There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
-- Elizabeth I -
If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.
-- Francis Bond Head -
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Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
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It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
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There is no shortage of disputes.
-- Howard RaiffaSource : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.7, Harvard University Press
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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
-- James BuchananSource : James Buchanan, James Buchanan Henry (1910). “The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence”
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In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.
-- James NaismithSource : James Naismith (1941). “Basketball: Its Origin and Development”, p.54, U of Nebraska Press
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I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.
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Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.
-- John MearsheimerSource : "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.
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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
-- Lord Acton -
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Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.
-- Margaret M. LockSource : Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.11, Univ of California Press
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Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.
-- Margaret WaySource : Margaret Way (2009). “Cattle Baron: Nanny Needed”, p.146, Harlequin
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You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes
-- Moses MendelssohnSource : Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Morning Hours: Lectures on God's Existence”, p.9, Springer Science & Business Media
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Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.
-- Nathanael Emmons -
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It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
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Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.
-- Robert Grosseteste -
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?
-- Robert J. SawyerSource : Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.88, Macmillan
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There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
-- Rudolf VirchowSource : Disease, Life, and Man 'On Man'
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I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.
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It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.
-- Santiago Ramon y CajalSource : Charlas de Cafe
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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
-- Satchel Paige -
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I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.
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Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes
-- Tom Cruise -
It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
-- William Penn -
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Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
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The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.
-- Nigel Gibson -
One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time there is a dispute: they are actually committed to one side.
-- Ken LoachSource : "Ken Loach and Paul Laverty". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.
