Disputed Quotes
42 quotes by 40 authors
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Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural…
— Elihu Root
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Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes…
— Stephen Bayley
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It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
— Alice Miller
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The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being…
— Alan Dershowitz
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It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this…
— Alexander Hamilton
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
— Novalis
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned…
— Walt Whitman
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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost…
— Bertrand Russell
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The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger…
— Howard Zinn
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here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a…
— Thomas de Quincey
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Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that…
— Cheryl Strayed
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I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development and ultimate fate…
— John N. Bahcall
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after…
— Mark Twain
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China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by…
— Wesley Clark
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For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of…
— Robert Kocharian
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They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they…
— Henry Walter Bates
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The vast majority of debt that Anglo maintains is owed is strenuously disputed. However, I cannot now pay those loans which are due, following Anglo…
— Sean Quinn
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In necessary things, unity; in disputed things, liberty; in all things, charity
— Superman
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