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• There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Science, Views

  Alfred North Whitehead (1929). “The Aims of Education & Other Essays”

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• When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom we had no quarrel. 'The ultimate test of our professionalism' is how Commander McKendrick describes an unprovoked attack on a nation with no submarines, no navy and no air force, and now with no clean water and no electricity and, in many hospitals, no anaesthetic with which to amputate small limbs shredded by shrapnel. I have seen elsewhere how this is done, with a gag in the patient's mouth.

  John Pilger

  Usa, Iraq, Air

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• Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

  Josh Billings

  Time, Blow, Four

  'Josh Billings, his Sayings' (1865).

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• Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.

  Tacitus

  Life, Usual, Lovers

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• It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

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• Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions. We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.

  Ida Tarbell

  Sports, Peace, War

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in scientific journals, where such quarrels as exist are over details, not the basic concept... Evolution has proved so useful as a paradigm for the origin and structure of life that it constitutes the foundation of the sciences of biology and medicine.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Medicine, Religion, Atheism

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

  Lionel Trilling

  Acceptance, Self, Mutation

  1965 Beyond Culture, introduction.

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• Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  God, War, Men

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• I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

  John Ruskin

  Selfish, Evil, Wickedness

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• It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up.

  Josh Billings

  Best Love, Fun, Lovers

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• About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity, may grow into a fault, and do great harm, still, it never can do so much harm as that horrible laxity and profligacy of speech which is a the root of half the quarrels, cruelties, and injustices of the world.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Real, Roots, Faults

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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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• In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Heart, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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• I am ready to talk today. I have been in a great many councils, but I am no wiser. We are all sprung from a woman, although we are unlike in many things. We can not be made over again. You are as you were made, and as you were made you can remain. We are just as we were made by the Great Spirit, and you can not change us ; then why should children of one mother and one father quarrel ? — why should one try to cheat the other ? I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Children, Father

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• God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Turns

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “A Day Book of Thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi”

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• When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Inheritance, Estates

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

  George Eliot

  Tragedy, Needs, Gone

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.101

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• Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Bears, Important Hamlet

  1600-1 Polonius to Laertes. Hamlet, act1, sc.3, l.65-7.

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• You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

  E. W. Howe

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology

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• I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.

  William Booth

  Mean, Army, Promise

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• I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Faith, Christianity, Ends

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• When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

  Aristotle

  Class, People, Vices

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Soul, Growth, Emancipation

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Life is a quest and love a quarrel

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Inspirational Love, And Love

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.159, eBookIt.com

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