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• Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Promise, Literature, Sides

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.119, University of Georgia Press

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• We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Umpires, Majority, Too Much

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• I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Knuckles, Internet

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• I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

  Joanne Harris

  Book, People, Causes

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• But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Fog, Bills

  "The long (and surprisingly happy) life of Nancy Pelosi’s ‘pass the bill’ gaffe" by David Weigel, www.washingtonpost.com. March 15, 2017.

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• I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.

  Virgil Thomson

  Discipline, Lovely, Asking

  Virgil Thomson (1984). “A Virgil Thomson reader”, Plume

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• Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off!

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Beautiful, Husband, Trying

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• Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Creativity, Art And Creativity

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2009.

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• Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

  Conan O'Brien

  Rocks, Years, Rock And Roll

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• To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Mean, Fighting, Men

  "In Politics, What Works For A Man Still Does Not Work For A Woman" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2009.

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• Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

  Edward Kennedy

  Views, Names, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

  Michio Kaku

  Driving, Global Warming, Controversial

  "Monster snowstorms still spell global warming" by Michio Kaku, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2011.

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• There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.

  Milla Jovovich

  Girl, Art, Watching Tv

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• It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

  Max Baucus

  Issues, Controversial, Results

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• Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum was given by Leibniz as 1/2, although others disagree. ... Understanding of this question is to be sought in the word "sum"; this idea, if thus conceived - namely, the sum of a series is said to be that quantity to which it is brought closer as more terms of the series are taken - has relevance only for convergent series, and we should in general give up the idea of sum for divergent series.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Giving Up, Taken

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• There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

  Garet Garrett

  Moving, Recovery, Forever

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

  Akon

  Thinking, Artist, Legends

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• We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Religious, Zero, Islamic

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• Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Newspapers, Sentences

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• It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out.

  Matt Keough

  Sports, Games, Psychology

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• PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Race, Wife, Cain

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2484, Delphi Classics

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• Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes . . . The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible. If the theory of relativity had also been necessary for salvation, it would have been revealed to Saint Paul or to Moses.

  Georges Lemaitre

  Doe, Saint, Doctrine

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• I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy, just to be punk rock.

  Hayley Williams

  Attitude, Rocks, Punk

  "Paramore: 'We're not just teenybopper superstars'". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.

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• I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked and it's paralyzing.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Thinking, Talking, People

  "Jada Pinkett Smith candid on family, projects". Interview with John Carucci, newsok.com. May 10, 2013.

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• We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.

  William J. Clinton

  Grateful, America, Achievement

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.71, Best Books on

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