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• In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.

  Lucy Powell

  Issues, Long, Lists

  "The plea of car owners ..." by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

  Tom Hayden

  Distance, Acceptance, Trying

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Monday, Philosophy, Believe

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Attitude, Winning, Trying

  "Charles Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol". www.washingtonpost.com. April 10, 2014.

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• Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been published, because it was read by scientist and non- scientist alike, and it aroused violent controversy. Religious people disliked it because it appeared to dispense with God; scientists liked it because it seemed to solve the most important problem in the universe-the existence of living matter. In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit in with it.

  Henry Lipson

  Religious, Book, People

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• I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.

  Marco Brambilla

  Interesting, Controversial

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• There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Theory, Propositions, Core

  "Opening Arguments Made in 'Intelligent Design' Court Case" by The Associated Press, www.livescience.com. September 26, 2005.

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• If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

  Julian Assange

  Media, Journalism, Controversial

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Fray, Objects

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• No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?

  Rudolf Virchow

  Science, Men, Doubt

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• We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. 'It is written' is the weapon used by the world's Redeemer. Let us keep close to the Word. Let us allow the Lord Jesus and His messengers to testify. We know that their testimony is true.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, World, Weapons

  Ellen G. White (1963). “Medical Ministry”, p.97, Pacific Press Publishing

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• There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

  Ben Mezrich

  Writing, Way

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• I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.

  Gina McCarthy

  Blood, Shy, Knows

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• Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Thinking, Looks

  "Sonia Sotomayor: There is 'still a need' for affirmative action" by Scott Stump and Scott Stump, www.today.com. November 02, 2015.

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• Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

  Claire McCaskill

  Careers, Issues, Choices

  "McCaskill: Senate Could Live With Stupak Amendment" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

  William E. Gladstone

  Important, Taxation, Firsts

  Letter to his brother Robertson of the Financial Reform Association at Liverpool in 1859. "Gladstone as Financier and Economist" by F. W. Hirst, p. 241, 1931.

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• It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Past, Might

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical”, p.11

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• My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Stress, Differences

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.13, Yale University Press

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• For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

  Hugh Grant

  Technology, Thinking, Firsts

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• It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Nice, People, Political

  United States v. Rabinowitz (dissenting opinion) (1950)

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• My intention... isn't to create controversy.

  Brett Favre

  Intention

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• I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Compassion, Animal, Rights

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

  George Mason

  Men, Sacred, Suits

  "The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America" compiled and edited by Newton Thorpe, Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1909.

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• The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.

  Dick Cheney

  Believe, United States, Needs

  "Cheney warns of new attacks" by Jim Vandehei , John F. Harris and Mike Allen, www.politico.com. February 4, 2009.

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• Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.

  Gina McCarthy

  Jobs, People, Decision

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