Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.
quote by Joyce Appleby
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I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
quote by Peter Singer
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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
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Slanderers are the devil's bellows, to blow up contention.
Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season.
quote by Al Michaels
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No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.
quote by Abraham Lincoln
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The issue of all contention is uncertain. [Witness the glorious uncertainty of the law, and of the turf.]
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
quote by Anita Brookner
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Who Do You Think You Are
Who do you think you are to,
Demonstrate hate.
And...
Who you think you are to,
Generate confusion.
Who do you think you are to,
Blow a fuse?
Then confuse,
Those issues that you have...
To manifest more madness.
Who do you think you are to,
Demonstrate hate.
And...
Who you think you are to,
Generate confusion.
Who do you think you are to,
Blow a fuse?
Then confuse,
Those issues that you have...
To manifest more madness.
Who do you think you are to,
Do flip flops.
Hop and scotch.
Avoid every purpose meant,
And still be in contention...
Without a fact to mention.
And,
Who do you think you are to...
Blow a fuse?
Then confuse,
Those issues that you have...
To manifest more madness.
Who do you think you are to,
Play hide and seek.
And,
Who do you think you are to,
Deceive and thieve.
Creep, leech and sneak,
And bow at the feet...
Of greed and selfish envy.
Who do you think you are to,
Play hide and seek.
And,
Who do you think you are to,
Deceive and thieve.
Who do you think you are to,
Creep, leech and sneak,
And bow at the feet...
Of greed and selfish envy.
Who do you think you are to,
Do flip flops.
Play hop and scotch.
To avoid every purpose meant,
And still be in contention.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
quote by Hannah Arendt
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
Abraham Lincoln in in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
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What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
quote by William S. Paley
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My Contention
My mouth is blocked,
My eyes are blindfolded and
My ears are closed.
But it is my contention
Perhaps mine alone…
Nobody is there with an ear that hears,
Nobody does anything that I can see and
Nobody says that I have to hear.
I too live a life of yours.
poem by M.d Dinesh Nair
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George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
quote by Christopher Lasch
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It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal.
quote by Marvin E. Wolfgang
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A Fool's Wrath
This message is hidden to those who perish but,
This poem will teach many!
For a fool's wrath is know at once.
Encouraging words of love and peace,
Pride only breeds contention!
And a fool exposes his or her folly to the public.
Wine and new wine has taken away your understanding,
And there is no trith, nor mercy, nor knowledge in this land;
Because the pride of your actions testifies against you!
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
quote by Rick Moody
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
quote by Francis Wright
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