Disputes Quotes - Page 18

• We believe that big nations should not bully smaller nations, and that the sovereignty of nations must be respected. And we have long urged that disputes be resolved peacefully, including through mechanisms like international arbitration.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Long, Bully

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fighting, Men, Hair

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but is an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while there exists equal justice to all and alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit

  Pericles

  Hands, Government, Justice

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• Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Money, Law, Would Be

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• It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

  Girolamo Savonarola

  Book, Scary, Would Be

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• And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taste, Life Is, Tasting

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

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• Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Military, War, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.279, Cambridge University Press

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• To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.

  George Washington

  Party, Two, Differences

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The writings of George Washington”, p.84

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• Every married couple has disputes from time to time, and in every good marriage, an attempt is made to overcome the dispute.

  Horst Seehofer

  Couple, Overcoming, Married

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If I were inclined to worry that the United States was veering in a dangerously theocratic direction, here's a short list of things I wouldn't fret about: a reality television program depicting the lives of ordinary Americans; a clause in a contract between parties to a business transaction agreeing that any disputes that arise between them be resolved in compliance with shared religious principles; halal soup; halal turkeys on the Thanksgiving table.

  Sarah Posner

  Religious, Party, Reality

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• The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public's trust in the IPCC.

  Judith Curry

  Voice, Action, Scientist

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• I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But one will never be able to prove it to an absolute certainty because the votes were never counted in Ohio as the result of an illegal effort by public officials to derail the recount. Even if you do not believe that the election was stolen, there is no dispute that the Republicans made a deliberate, concerted effort to tilt the results in their favor.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Believe, Intelligent, Ohio

  Interview with David Kupfer, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

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• You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

  Alice Hoffman

  Evil, Ridiculous, Arguing

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• Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

  John Irving

  Presidential, Agendas, Blind

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• Politics has become incendiary. People don't find it so funny now so I have to be careful, but I have to wake them up with some truths and the truths I aim at them are over 100 years old. Facts that no one can dispute.

  Hal Holbrook

  Years, People, Facts

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• But then you say, Well, who makes the decision? Does the government make the decision? The reason this is such a national dispute and moral issue for people is because it occurs inside the body of a woman. That makes it really complicated. What are you going to do? Put women in prison? How much do we want the government to intrude on this?

  John H Richardson

  Government, Issues, People

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• Since 1981, after our nations severed diplomatic relations, we've worked through a international tribunal to resolve various claims between our countries. The United States and Iran are now settling a long-standing Iranian government claim against the United States government. Iran will be returned its own funds, including appropriate interest but much less than the amount Iran sought. With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Government, Iran

  Statement by the President on Iran, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 17, 2016.

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• The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes (though this can take years) and share ideas, but most countries would be better off choosing their own trading partners and lowering trade barriers at their own pace.

  Daniel Altman

  Country, Years, Ideas

  "Why the WTO Is Obsolete". Interview with Daniel Altman, bigthink.com.

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• In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes. Judges must settle legal disputes, not pursue agendas. Judges must interpret and apply the law, not make the law.

  Orrin Hatch

  Government, Law, Judging

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We should evaluate judges and judicial nominees based on the general process for applying the law to any legal disputes, not on the specific result in a particular case or dispute.

  Orrin Hatch

  Law, Judging, Process

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Our courts provide a neutral forum for the adjudication of disputes under the law, not based on economic or political power, on race, on sex or any other personal characteristics.

  Jon Kyl

  Sex, Race, Law

  Jon Kyl's opening statements at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• We've got people in the Republican Party that just believe that if you just cut taxes for corporations, and that you have more trade, and we just bring in more people from abroad, that this is going to help the average guy. Well, it's not. I mean, this is an honest dispute. We're going to have a dispute about it. The American people agree with [Donald] Trump and I agree with Trump on those things.

  Jeff Sessions

  Party, Believe, Mean

  "Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Sen. Jeff Sessions". www.politico.com. May 31, 2016.

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• We'll have a national dispute - debate about it, and the goal should be to bring in - to help respectfully appeal to those voters that can make the difference, the ones who are not going to be entrepreneurs, are never going to be - run a - be a CEO in some big business, and they know it, but they would like to have their Social Security, they would like to have Medicare as they paid for all their years, and they'd like rising wages rather than falling wages.

  Jeff Sessions

  Running, Fall, Years

  Source: www.politico.com

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• This is an industry [high fashion] that has an abundance of over-confidence. I don't think anyone would dispute that, and I'm not trying to pick on anybody, but that's just a fact, right? And sometimes that's fun.

  Jared Leto

  Fashion, Fun, Thinking

  "Jared Leto Talks Rebel Style, Gucci's Alessandro Michele, and Why He Hates Shopping". Interview with Megan Gustashaw, www.gq.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Both our nations [Malasian and American] are committed to building a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully and this visit will be an opportunity to continue deepening our cooperation on behalf of regional stability and prosperity.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Order, Play

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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