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Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.

John Owen

Blow, Men, Thinking

John Owen (1994). “The Works of John Owen”

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I have no quarrel with what I learned in the Presbyterian church - I am still an enthusiastic Christian. But why shouldn't I try to learn more? Why shouldn't I go to Hindu services? Why shouldn't I go to Muslim services? If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

John Templeton

Christian, Optimistic, Opportunity

"Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 01, 1999.

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Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these questions ... It was clear that in the United States there was a development not of the best, but of the middle and worst sides of European civilization; the notorious general voting, the tendency to politics... all the same as in Europe. A new dawn is not to be seen on this side of the ocean.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Hate, Ocean, Science

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A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.

Derren Brown

Compassion, Blood, Order

"Confessions of a Conjuror". Book by Derren Brown, 2009.

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Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Mignon McLaughlin

Family, Being Thankful, Understanding

"The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Anger, Men, Two

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Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

Horace Mann

Adversity, Evil, Mercy

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An ant has no quarrel with a boot.

Tom Hiddleston

Boots, Ants

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... Wild Bill had his faults, grievous ones, perhaps ... He would get drunk, gamble, and indulge in the general licentiousness characteristic of the border in the early days, yet even when full of the vile libel of the name of whiskey which was dealt over the bars at exorbitant prices, he was gentle as a child, unless aroused to anger by intended insults. ... He was loyal in his friendship, generous to a fault, and invariably espoused the cause of the weaker against the stronger one in a quarrel.

Jack Crawford

Children, Names, Indulge In

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To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm

Richard Thompson

Hate, Judging, Alarms

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No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?

Rudolf Virchow

Science, Men, Doubt

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When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that is not mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce, which allows the unsuccessful combatant to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.

Edward Gibbon

Blow, Encounters, Arms

Edward Gibbon (2016). “The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.2211, e-artnow

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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Thomas Carlyle

Peace, War, Fighting

"Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty" by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.

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The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers.

Thomas Huxley

Philosophy, Feelings, Poachers

Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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I have no use for "men's rights," any more than I have any use for "women's rights," but let us ask: Who was it that decided it was a good idea to politicize love, sex and marriage? Who spent the past four decades proclaiming that "the personal is political," so that every office flirtation and every petty domestic quarrel is a federal civil rights violation? The damned feminists, that's who.

Robert Stacy McCain

Sex, Past, Men

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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Spring, Sunset, Eye

"The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Eknath Easwaran

Short Life, Joy, Important

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Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

Arthur Compton

Children, Men, Atheism

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Why getting angry? Getting angry doesn’t solve anything… I don’t like yelling and fighting and I can’t quarrel, I prefer to let it drop… When people use disagreeable words, I feel crushed and remember them for a long time.

Grace Kelly

Fighting, Yelling, Long

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The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.

Albert Einstein

War, Party, Struggle

Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.507, Princeton University Press

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How important are money management and finances in marriage and family affairs? Tremendously. The American Bar Association recently indicated that 89 percent of all divorces could be traced to quarrels and accusations over money. Another study estimated that 75 percent of all divorces result from clashes over finances. Some professional counselors indicated that four out of every five families wrestle with serious money problems.

Jeffrey R. Holland

Divorce, Important, Four

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I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

Samuel Pepys

Opportunity, Giving, Wife

Samuel Pepys (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Pepys (Illustrated)”, p.2195, Delphi Classics

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Abraham Lincoln

People, Political, Politics

Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.64, Wildside Press LLC

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I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.

Joseph Conrad

Imagination, Imagine, Humans

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One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.

Thornton Wilder

Art, Danger, Thrown

Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.66, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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