Disputes Quotes

• How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

  Aristotle

  Argument, Term, Paragraph

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• Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Friendship, Wisdom

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• Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Sobriety, Passive Aggressive

  Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). “Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years”

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• Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

  Max Lucado

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Educational, Party

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  You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Positivity, Sunshine

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing

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• There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Mean, People

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• Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Art, Believe, Men

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.269, University of Chicago Press

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• I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Hands, Wish

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• There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Needs, Currents, Albany

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• It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

  Samuel Butler

  Anger, Gains, Debate

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4366, Delphi Classics

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• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Philosophical, School, Know How

  Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Morning Hours: Lectures on God's Existence”, p.9, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Should Have, Class, Gentleman

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes”, p.17

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• I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Matter, Philosopher, Debate

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• I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.

  Shakira

  Clothes, Support, Brooklyn

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• If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

  Satchel Paige

  Lying, Down And, Carrying On

  "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Age, World, Earth

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton

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• l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  "Duty, Honor, Country: Two Memorable Addresses".

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• Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Mistake, Thinking, Land

  "Exit Interview: Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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• Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Doors, Noise, Be Careful

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• The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

  William C. Kirby

  Important, United States, Asian

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• I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Mean, Men

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Florida, Law, People

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• Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

  Archibald Cox

  Men, Law, Goal

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