Controversy Quotes - Page 7

• One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential point to other minds. Words may have to be strained into a new sense, and scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words. On the other hand, a happy nomenclature has sometimes been more powerful than rigorous logic in allowing a new train of thought to be quickly and generally accepted.

  Arthur Schuster

  Powerful, Lying, Science

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• It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities and opportunities to speak and act effectively."

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.

  Curtis Hanson

  Dog, Memories, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You look at something like health care, the Affordable Care Act. And for all the controversy, we now have 20 million people who have health insurance who didn't have it. It's actually proven to be more effective, cheaper than even advocates like me expected.

  Barack Obama

  People, Looks, Care

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the Blessed Sacrament. Every one who has had anything to do with ministering to souls has seen the power which Jesus has. Talent is not needed. Eloquence is comparatively unattractive. Learning is often beside the mark. Controversy simply repels... All the attraction of the Church is in Jesus, and His chief attraction is the Blessed Sacrament

  Frederick William Faber

  Jesus, Blessed, Soul

  Frederick William Faber (1855). “The blessed sacrament: or, The works and ways of God”, p.510

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• Donald Trump moves in two parallel tracks at the same time. There's the controversial political guy that's always out there with his tweets. He comes from a showbiz background, as well as a very successful career in finance and real estate. He loves sometimes the controversy more than some people - the press thinks they're totally aggravating him. He sometimes thrives on the public controversy and the hitting back. Meanwhile, he's very results-oriented. He knows that the American people are going to judge him by his performance on the economy, on jobs, on national security.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Real, Moving, Successful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life And Love, People, Great People

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• The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset.

  John Holdren

  Data, Energy, Groups

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• I can just generally say that Iran is a very multilayered, controversial country. There are so many contrasts and controversies that question themselves within whole different layers. It's not an easy place to wrap up in one answer or one question. It's a very multicultural, multiethnic place.

  Jason Rezaian

  Country, Iran, Answers

  "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.

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• I don't have time to think about the false controversy.

  Susan Rice

  Thinking, Concentration, Time To Think

  "Rice defends Benghazi interviews" by Andrea Drusch, www.politico.com. December 22, 2013.

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• Women's position includes so many pre-Islamic customs that have become an integral part of the Shariat. I am fighting that. Triple talaq is not mentioned in the Quran. Of course, there is a controversy; some maintain that the Prophet approved of it. Even if he did, maybe he had social constraints.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Islamic, Fighting, Quran

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.

  Irvine Welsh

  Issues, People, Controversial

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great - says great things about our judicial system.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Thinking, United States, Ends

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• Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!

  Ray Bradbury

  Dog, Book, Cat

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• Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems that have been troubling for Europe - a little less so for the U.S. but, even so, a lot of controversy there - these things are why the future's going to be better than the past. People really do look to the United States, so we'll be there making the case.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, Past

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• However, I have a lot of greed. The types of music I want to show are on this side and on that side. Conclusively, if I'm able to make good music and people continue to look for my music, won't this kind of controversy get better... is my thought.

  Kim Nam-joon

  People, Greed, Get Better

  Source: kpopkfans.blogspot.com

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• Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of taxes - more specifically, the right to tax - is clearly no stranger to controversy and has frequently served as the catalyst for revolutionary change.

  Owen Arthur

  Destiny, Matter, Roles

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• The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is love.

  Ellen G. White

  Light, Space, Perfect

  Ellen G. White “The Great Controversy—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• I appreciate the decision made by Gov. Brewer to veto this legislation. I hope that we can now move on from this controversy and assure the American people that everyone is welcome to live, work and enjoy our beautiful State of Arizona.

  John McCain

  Beautiful, Moving, Gay

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• Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.

  Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

  Tasks, Opponents, Economics

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• Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth.

  Al Gore

  Children, Cutting, Growth

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• [Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as a message: Be cautious, be prudent, be bland, never push anybody, never say what you really think, offer yourself as a hostage to the weirdos even before they make the first move. These days, a lot of people are opposed to the newfound popularity of 'trash television,' and no doubt they are right, and the hosts of these shows are shameless controversy-mongers. But at least they are not intimidated. Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

  Roger Ebert

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• Barry Bonds was like Joe Namath or Muhammad Ali. He could make a statement and go out and back it up. Not a lot of guys can do that. In fact, managers usually cringe when guys make statements about what they're going to do. In Barry's case, I liked it. I think he did it on purpose to motivate himself. In a lot of ways, it's easy for Barry. I think he needs a little controversy around him.

  Jim Leyland

  Thinking, Guy, Littles

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• Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

  John Donne

  Peace, Men, Long

  John Donne, Michael Rudick, M. Pabst Battin (1982). “Biathanatos”, New York : Garland Pub.

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• If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

  Kevin Durant

  Stories, Want, Clear

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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