If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
When I've had a talk with someone, I like them to leave unconfused. No need for contention. — Philip Green Copy Share Image
Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted. — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families…… — Stephen Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have… — Robert de Castella Copy Share Image
I'm feeling alright, I am pretty happy with it. I was trying to catch her, around 37k my calf started to cramp… — Lanni Marchant Copy Share Image
Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University… — Darryl Dawkins Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the… — David Lasser Copy Share Image
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself.… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
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