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contentions
«Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be.»
«The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.»
Author: William H. Gass
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«The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
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contention, contentions, disastrous, merit, The WELL, well-meaning
«The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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«Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.»
Author: Bible
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contentions
«Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? / They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.»
«Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
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