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I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management. -- Michael K. Simpson
Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste. -- Edie Brickell
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. -- Zhuangzi
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. -- Thomas Carlyle
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. -- Keanu Reeves
The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour. -- Alan Lewis
Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless. -- Francis Bacon
Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves. -- Stephen Covey
But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science... -- David Hume
Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune
What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards that regard dissent as an obligation and that treat no subject as undiscussable. -- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
Aikido is the principle of non-resistance. Because it is non-resistant, it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious thoughts are instantly vanquished. Aikido is invincible because it contends with nothing. -- Morihei Ueshiba
I think it's unworkable. What are we going to have, people like in contentious divorces suddenly claiming that one or the other of them should go to jail because once he or she spanked the child. -- Sean Hannity
Politics in this country [USA] is always tough. It's always contentious, because this is a big country and a diverse country, and people have strong points of view, and we've got a great diversity of interests. -- Barack Obama
Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has not yet learned what truth is really like; once he has truly learned it, he will cease from zealousness on its behalf. -- Isaac of Nineveh
...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared. -- Dean Koontz
Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved! -- Saint Augustine
You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready. -- Stephen Daldry
It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that. -- David Levithan
Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of other purposes--as homes, offices, bedrooms, henhouses, jetties, breakwaters, even offensive weapons. -- Frank Smith
Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my religious neighbors as fellow truth-seekers-but also because I deeply appreciated the book's nuanced approach to contentious issues. This is an important contribution to current debates, one which should be read not only for its valuable content but also for its exemplary tone: warm, engaging, optimistic, and humble. -- John Corvino
I don't even like playing a contentious role. -- Jim DeMint
Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right. -- Sara Sheridan
I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair. -- Rand Paul
My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad. -- Matt Damon
If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn't pick a job based on this unresolved emotional issue of yours, you should get counseling for it. -- Tucker Max
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein. -- Paul Di Filippo
My own contentious relationship with gaming continued through high school and college: I still enjoyed playing games from time to time, but I always found myself pushed away by the sexism that permeated gaming culture. There were constant reminders that I didn't really belong. -- Anita Sarkeesian
I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go from incident to incident, and we have spikes in which race becomes something that we talk about, as opposed to talking about race in those less contentious times when I think we might make more progress. -- Eric Holder
The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language. -- Judy Woodruff
The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious. -- Michael Scott
It's such a contentious thing to get people in a room and just say, "go!" -- Daniel Lopatin
Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal. -- Darryl Pinckney
A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can severity alone. -- Horace
The Constitution empowers the people to resolve our day's most contentious issues. When judges forget this basic truth, they do a disservice to our democracy and to our constitution. -- Mike DeWine
I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody. -- Hillary Clinton

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