Disputed Quotes
42 quotes by 40 authors
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He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a…
— Tertullian
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This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil…
— Martin Luther
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Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some person…
— Roy Baumeister
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That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one…
— Robert J. Sawyer
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The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and…
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the…
— Curnonsky
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The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
— Samuel Johnson
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Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense was an appeal…
— James Taranto
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Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape…
— Ralph P. Martin
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but…
— Henry Adams
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Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
— Thomas Lansing Masson
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The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in…
— King Edward VIII
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Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had…
— Charles Perrault
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I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but…
— Jamal Lewis
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