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Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. -- Baltasar Gracian
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. -- Honore de Balzac
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. -- Mao Zedong
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free. -- William Henry Harrison
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end. -- Robert Herrick
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. -- Tony Campolo
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul. -- Heraclitus
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work. -- Pat Metheny
No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone! -- Madeleine Peyroux
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. -- Franz Liszt
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. -- Thomas Hobbes
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. -- Charles Trevelyan
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land. -- Mao Zedong
I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have. -- Steven Hatfill
While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life. -- Josh McDowell
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. -- Jean Kerr
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. -- Charles Dickens
I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people. -- Tony Campolo
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. -- Martin Luther
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with. -- Kirk Hammett
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life. -- Ayelet Waldman
Always contend for the good! -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The sage's Way is to act and not to contend. -- Laozi
The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool. -- Georgia Douglas Johnson
Does anyone seriously contend that any nation can fend for itself? -- Kofi Annan
When two good men contend about principles, both are always right. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Community groups contend that door-to-door loan sales are often followed by foreclosures. -- Bill Dedman
Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with. -- Patty Griffin
Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere. -- Sherry Turkle
It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play. -- Lee Westwood
I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe. -- William Shakespeare
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free. -- William Henry Harrison
Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation? -- Henry Kirke White
The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend. -- Evagrius Ponticus
Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread -- Thomas Seward
I contend that those who Agape can only administer mercy and grace."~R. Alan Woods [2012] -- R. Alan Woods
It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you. -- John Owen
It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend. -- Laozi
With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend. -- John Tillotson
Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep. -- Robert Browning
I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies. -- Oliver James
As long as I feel like I can win majors and contend, I'll continue to play. -- Pete Sampras
Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost! -- Alexander Pope
I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those. -- Zooey Deschanel
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? -- Wallace Stevens
I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other. -- Gary Shteyngart
I contend that the problem with transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence -- Janice Raymond
There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents. -- David Sedaris
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with. -- Steven Pinker
We contend that ideas and/or practices may be scriptural as long as they are not condemned by scripture. -- Charles H. Kraft
Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging. -- Ferdinand Lundberg
Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead. -- Thomas Hobbes
Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it. -- C. J. Cherryh
I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful. -- Lance Burton
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. -- Francis Bacon
Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity. -- Frank Herbert
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances. -- Gunter Pauli
Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time. -- Elizabeth McGovern
I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong -- Mencius
The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form. -- Jefferson Davis
I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders. -- Daniel L Dreisbach
I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features. -- Marie Dressler
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction. -- E. T. A. Hoffmann
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt. -- John Calvin
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America. -- Tony Campolo
Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.' -- Gary Jennings
Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments. -- Charles Duhigg
Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden. -- John Milton
So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other. -- Sigmund Freud
Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat. -- Allen Klein
We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God. -- Tullian Tchividjian
There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about. -- Bill McKibben
When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men. -- John Owen
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with. -- William Least Heat-Moon
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages. -- Jane Austen
When I was filming 'Lost,' we'd be in the jungle. The only thing we had to contend with was the sound of the ocean. That was it, really. -- Henry Ian Cusick
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. -- Ambrose Bierce
In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it. -- Henry Rollins
Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic. -- Norman Cousins
Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend. -- William Butler Yeats
I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with. -- Levon Helm
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. -- Angela Carter
I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion. -- Edmund Burke
Catherine thought Simon was in the locket, and in heaven, and with them still. Lucas hoped she didn't expect him to be happy about having so many Simons to contend with. -- Michael Cunningham
It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious. -- Adam McKay
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end? -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two? -- Terrence Malick
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does. -- Tertullian
Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot. -- Rand Paul
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Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. -- Tony Campolo
I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I've been consuming unconsciously. -- Lucy Corin
All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment. -- Kevin Powers
Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe, yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so. -- Herbert Spencer
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.] -- Horace
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours -- Stephen Roberts
God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of dish that will induce the people to partake of it -- Catherine Booth
I hope for an America where we can all contend freely and vigorously, but where we will treasure and guard those standards of civility which alone make this nation safe for both democracy and diversity. -- Edward Kennedy
It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way. -- Ricardo Semler

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