Controversy Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

  George Gilder

  Intelligent, Design, Doe

  "The evolution of George Gilder". Interview with Joseph P. Kahn, www.boston.com. July 27, 2005.

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• Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days...We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting.

  Chuck D

  Reality, Hard Times, People

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• It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

  Keith David

  Hurt, Feelings, Publicity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

  Leon Kass

  Children, Abortion, Important

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• The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Fighting, Mma

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• The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.

  Ernst Junger

  Punishment, Judging, Guilt

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• How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

  Edmond Jabes

  Bird, Doubt, Nests

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• I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.

  James L. Buckley

  Afterlife, Presidential, Campaigns

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• I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

  Josiah Warren

  Confused, Aggravation, Decline

  Josiah Warren (1875). “True Civilization: A Subject of Vital and Serious Interest to All People; But Most Immediately to the Men and Women of Labor and Sorrow”, p.106

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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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• I'm always positive when it comes to professional bodybuilding, hell I'm Mr. Olympia for God's sake. If I'm number one in our sport and I have a negative attitude then our sport don't need me and I don't need our sport. There are problems and controversy in all sports. That's really unavoidable.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Sports, Attitude, Bodybuilding

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• If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.

  Rod Serling

  Trying, Trouble, Social

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• I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

  M. F. Husain

  Thinking, People, New Work

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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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• I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.

  Barack Obama

  Barack Obama's Remarks in Joint Press Conference with Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom in Brussels, Belgium, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 5, 2014.

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• I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.

  John Travolta

  Mean, Want, Opinion

  "John Travolta Defends Tom Cruise on Psychiatry". www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2007.

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• It becomes easier to handle controversies when you are a part of the film industry. I just take them with
  a smile.

  Katrina Kaif

  Film, Easier, Handle

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• Speaking of the motto of the New York Times, "All the news that's fit to print:" It is hard to think of any group of seven words that have aroused more newspaper controversy.

  Gerald W. Johnson

  New York, Thinking, Groups

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• For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Writing, Ukulele, Thinker

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• 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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