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Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. -- Joyce Appleby
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things. -- Peter Singer
Contention, like a horse, Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him. -- William Shakespeare
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. -- Christopher Lasch
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. -- Hannah Arendt
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. -- Morihei Ueshiba
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. -- Anita Brookner
Religious contention is the devil's harvest. -- Jean de La Fontaine
And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. -- Pierre Corneille
The whole discord of this world consists in discords. -- Seneca the Younger
You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.] -- Plautus
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. -- Walter Scott
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. -- Matthew Arnold
My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style. -- Rick Moody
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. -- William Cowper
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it. -- Lawana Blackwell
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. -- Abraham Lincoln
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions. -- Homer
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry. -- Carl Sagan
The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them. -- Bill Vaughan
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that "Only by pride cometh contention". -- Ezra Taft Benson
It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse. -- Deborah Tannen
The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on stability, strength, peace, and unity in the home. There is certainly not time for contention in building a strong family. -- Marvin J. Ashton
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. -- Raymond Chandler
The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention. -- Ezra Taft Benson
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. -- Anita Brookner
I like it when, you know, 3-under wins, you know, 20-under par, it just brings so many other people into contention. -- Paula Creamer
If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season. -- Al Michaels
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. -- William S. Paley
Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K. -- Robert Dallek
A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion. -- Jakob Bohme
Some guys have trouble sleeping the night before an important round. I never have. Invariably, I sleep longer and better, and have more dreams, when I'm in contention and feeling pressure. -- Tom Watson
We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male. -- Abigail Disney
It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention. -- Henry B. Eyring
In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy. -- James E. Faust
The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God? -- Mustafa Akyol
We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention. -- Frances Wright
I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice. -- Seth Green
Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. We would have no bickering, quarreling, strife, or contention in our homes. We would not offend or insult one another either verbally or in any other way. We would not have unnecessary litigation over small matters. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing. -- Tim Cahill
When I'm playing my best and find myself in contention late on Sundays, it's usually when I'm not thinking about my swing, but rather trusting my setup and smoothly pulling the trigger. I won't completely rely on feel - I like to keep a few images in the back of my mind to make sure that I get the most out of my driver, irons and wedges. -- Sergio Garcia
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It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic. -- E. M. Broner
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling. -- Izaak Walton
It is my contention that value does not mix so well with debt. -- Hugh Hendry
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love. -- George Herbert
To rid the world of aggression and contention is the purpose of Aikido -- Morihei Ueshiba
Believe it or not, when I get in contention I can still hit the shots, -- Padraig Harrington
Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention. -- William Cowper
It's our contention that equity may be in the money, depending on where the liabilities lie. -- David Tepper
There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about. -- Jack Nicklaus
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. -- Michel de Montaigne
When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible. -- Oswald Chambers
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul. -- Michel de Montaigne
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The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong. -- Dallin H. Oaks
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention. -- Thomas Aquinas
Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband. -- Saadi
It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion. -- Paul Winchell
Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man. -- Jack Nicklaus
Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be. -- Terry Hands
I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones. -- Buju Banton
Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. -- Dallin H. Oaks
The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict. -- Michael Medved
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit. -- Carl Sagan
It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not. -- Garry Winogrand
How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. -- Marvin J. Ashton
I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. -- Albert Einstein
I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things. -- Thomas Jefferson
If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important than your relationship. -- Chris Prentiss
My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest. -- Reinhold Messner
It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist. -- Margaret Atwood
Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere -- Gerrard Winstanley
The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention. -- Thucydides
We are on top at the moment but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work. -- Jose Mourinho
Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention. -- Paula Creamer
Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them. -- Joseph Henry
It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way. -- J. Paul Getty
It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man - which makes American psychology so profoundly disturbing. -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy
I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families. -- Jack Kirby
When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts. -- Saadi
The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed. -- Emma Goldman
Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention. -- Henry James
One of the main point of contention is whether or not Keith Scott was in possession of a gun. We still don`t know. Police say he did have a gun. The gun was recovered. -- Chris Hayes

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