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• Things will be different this time," Caine said. "There was too much contention, too much violence the last time. I tried to be a peaceful leader. But thing went badly." "I wonder why," Diana muttered. "These people," Caine said grandly, sweeping his arm towards the town, "need more than a leader. They need...a king.

  Michael Grant

  Kings, People, Leader

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• no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Time, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (1888). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln”

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• It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the long distance bombardment is now in the process of development; that its eventual perfection is but a matter of time; and its use in warfare is certain to occur. I refer to the rocket. The perfection of the rocket in my opinion will give to future warfare the horror unknown in previous conflicts and will make possible destruction of nations, in a cool, passionless and scientific fashion.

  David Lasser

  Fashion, Distance, Future

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• This is happening all over the world. It's not just this golf course. Hopefully, if it stays dry, it will let a few more people in (contention). If it gets wet, though, there's only a few people where it's attainable.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Golf, People, World

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• What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years ago – that is the industrial paradigm exceeding its efficiency. So these Latin squiggly words that we're learning to say – bovine spongiform encephalopathy – are nature's language screaming to us: ENOUGH! And the question then is: what will it take for us to listen? And my contention is that Wall Street is still wearing conquistador mentality and uniforms, and nobody is listening to the pleadings of nature saying: 'Enough.'

  Joel Salatin

  Wall, Latin, Years

  "Interview: Joel Salatin" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

  Nel Noddings

  Children, Educational, Believe

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• I never lost my faith...But like all modern Catholics, I felt for a time that I had outgrown the church. Now it is a bone of contention in my soul that I did not share my faith with my kids, as my parents did with me. It was a source of grace when I needed it. I have been greatly nurtured and inspired by my faith.

  Martin Sheen

  Inspirational, Kids, Parent

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• If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

  Simone Weil

  Life, War, Attention And Love

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.

  Ibycus

  Needs, Argument, Reason

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• There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself

  James Nayler

  Revenge, Wrath, Evil

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• The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Able, Lasts

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• 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.

  William H. Gass

  Astrology, Realization, Earth

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• Debate is the death of conversation.

  Emil Ludwig

  Argument, Debate, Conversation

  "Dictionary of Quotations in Communications". Book by Lilless McPherson Shilling, Linda K. Fuller, 1997.

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• Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Successful, Criticism, Working Together

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Lying, Silence, Mind

  "On Warren Hastings" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1841.

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• When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.

  Saadi

  War, Mind, Enemy

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• The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.

  C. S. Lewis

  Bible, Biblical, Self

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• My final coaching point of the day: It's my contention that in any given moment one lives one's life in one of two ways, either under a threat or for a challenge. In performing when it counts, it's one or the other, under a threat or for a challenge. If, as Einstein says, "Imagination will take you everywhere," then living your life under a threat will take you nowhere.

  Jim Steen

  Inspirational, Graduation, Two

  Jim Steen's commencement address at Kenyon College, www.graduationwisdom.com. 2011.

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• Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Humanity, Existential, Psychotherapy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2000). “Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning”, Basic Books

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• My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.

  Reinhold Messner

  Climbing, Doe, Increase

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• To rid the world of aggression and contention is the purpose of Aikido

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Aikido, Purpose, World

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• Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Beautiful, Art, Powerful

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• Heir to your own karma doesn't mean 'You get what you deserve.' I think it means 'You get what you get.' Bad things happen to good people. My happiness depending on my action means, to me, that it depends on my action of choosing compassion--for myself as well as for everyone else--rather than contention. [p.61]

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Karma, Mean, Thinking

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2008). “Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life”, p.40, Ballantine Books

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• Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don’t let style become a point of contention.

  Ed Stetzer

  Style, Denominations, Defined

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• Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

  Gay Hendricks

  Beginning Middle And End, Argument, Ends

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