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The hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don’t you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.
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The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
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The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
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There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.
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There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,–his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.
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There’s no controversy there. We’re hoping to get it back on the docket as soon as possible.
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They probably wouldn’t have done as well as they did. Controversy simply brought in so much extra business.
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This was meant to be and it was meant to come here at this time when there is so much controversy about Hawaiian artifacts.
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Through his actions and behaviors, Congressman Condit has brought controversy and discredit to his family, his district and the Congress.
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To avoid the controversy, to avoid the litigation and to avoid the adverse publicity that comes to this city.
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To think everything disputable is a proof of a weak mind and captious temper.
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Virtually all evidence produces controversy. If it matters, it produces controversy.
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We have a controversy where people want to bury everything.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: ‘It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace.’ But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,–their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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When a subject is highly controversial… one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one’s audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears Set folk together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For dame Religion, as for punk.
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When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness — it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.
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