Controversy Quotes - Page 6

• I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Believe, America, Mature

  "In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961".

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• History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

  Washington Irving

  Fall, Character, Dust

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

  G. Willow Wilson

  Meaningful, People, Mediocre

  G. Willow Wilson (2010). “The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam”, p.261, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In the midnight hour I can feel your power...

  Madonna Ciccone

  Midnight, Hours, Feels

  "Song: Like a Prayer". March 3, 1989.

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• [On President Clinton's address:] It was the worst inaugural address of our lifetime, and I think the only controversy will be between those who say it was completely and utterly banal and those who say, 'Well, not completely and utterly.

  Peggy Noonan

  Thinking, President, Addresses

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• All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Dumb, Mind

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.20

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• The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.

  David M. Raup

  Gossip, Television, Maelstrom

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• A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.

  Jay Leno

  Dad, Father, Iraq

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• This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Moving, Cynical

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• A paradigm shift is the best a scientist can hope for. Whenever I smell an opportunity like that, I go after it. You have a new discovery that something's working in a different way than you thought. And this is particularly true in molecular and cell biology, which is structural biology and has the least potential for controversy and partisanship among the biological scientists. You're dealing with a concrete object that's either there or not there.

  E. O. Wilson

  Opportunity, Different, Biology

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

  Norman Lear

  Real, People, Ends

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history. Anyone captivated by the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation and development of the nation's natural heritage should read this engaging, carefully researched biography.

  Carolyn Merchant

  Issues, Insightful, Environmental

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• Many questions remain in the UFO controversy. Scientists ask how interstellar pilots could survive a trip of hundreds of years while cutting-edge physicists offer speculation of deep space wormholes and the use of zero point energy. For now, we could not do any better than to study MAJIC EYES ONLY and read the accounts of UFO crash retrievals and ponder what a reality that includes diverse intelligent life outside of our planet might mean for us and future generations.

  Jim Marrs

  Zero, Mean, Eye

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• There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or from Sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgement of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species.

  David Hume

  Intelligent, Perception Of Beauty, Judgement

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• HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Europe, Lasts, Bitterness

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.84, 谷月社

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• One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.

  Peter George Peterson

  Adventure, Numbers, Safety

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• Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

  George Santayana

  Passion, Knowing, Religion

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.159, 谷月社

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• This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

  Immanuel Kant

  School, Men, Hands

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of pure reason, tr. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn”, p.37

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• I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

  Martha Smith

  Thinking, Numbers, Issues

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• He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.

  Keith Carradine

  Men, Killers, West

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• Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

  Stephen A. Douglas

  Important, Done, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.112, University of Chicago Press

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• As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Soul, Passionate

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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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• The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Class, Middle, Proletariat

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• Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.

  Stefan Halper

  Order, Civilization, Promise

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