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Controversies are a package deal in this industry. You just have to understand that and accept it. -- Akshay Kumar
I am used to controversies. -- Sharad Pawar
I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies. -- Josiah Warren
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. -- Stanley Hauerwas
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. -- Tryon Edwards
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. -- Felix Frankfurter
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. -- Freda Adler
The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other. -- Fritz Sauckel
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. -- Marcus Aurelius
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day. -- William Bennett
Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy. -- Tom Hayden
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast. -- Nicholson Baker
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis. -- Nikola Tesla
I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form. -- Edward Irving
A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge. -- Richard Leakey
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword. -- Andrew Jackson
I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular. -- Rajeev Shukla
I am not a very social person and have a few friends who have been with me since school and college. I hate going to parties and events and would rather sit at home and watch TV. Parties are the place where controversies happen. -- Sonakshi Sinha
Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis. -- Michael Leunig
The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you see headlines like 'General Relativity still governing planetary orbits' or 'Phlogiston theory remains false'? By the time anything is solid science, it is no longer a breaking headline. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don't care what other people think. -- Sonam Kapoor
Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games. -- Tina Brown
I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly. -- Saina Nehwal
I have appeared on 'The Dr. Oz show' and recognize that Dr. Oz does not hold the exact same viewpoints about all controversies in human nutrition that I do, but he has a huge base of knowledge and is open-minded and willing to re-consider a position based on emerging evidence on multiple scientific and health issues. -- Joel Fuhrman
The unknowable creates the greatest controversies. -- Mason Cooley
In mathematics there are no true controversies. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington. -- Barack Obama
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. -- George Washington
There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does. -- Richard Dawkins
I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention. -- Charles Barkley
There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish. -- Lee Wulff
Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage. -- Luis Fernando Verissimo
It becomes easier to handle controversies when you are a part of the film industry. I just take them with a smile. -- Katrina Kaif
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good. -- Luc de Clapiers
That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred. -- George Mason
[Donald Trump] has got his own controversies to deal with. The business conflicts are a big one. But he`s creating new ones. There`s no precedent for it. -- Chuck Todd
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions. -- Ambrose Bierce
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast." -- Nicholson Baker
If they think they can get anyone who could have better handled the complex and difficult issues surrounding North Korea, Iran and other controversies, they are not understanding the world right now. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
In our constitutional system, the extent of political controversies, including the protests, surrounding a given issue is utterly unrelated to the analysis of legality and should have no effect on any court. -- David B. Rivkin
It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone by than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide. -- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
It's much easier when your team's winning. When your team starts to lose, that's where a lot of these quarterback controversies divide a locker room. The key, as a pro, is to be a pro. -- Kurt Warner

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