My Contention Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with…
— Hannah Arendt
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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was…
— Anita Brookner
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It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude…
— Frank Yerby
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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that…
— Don DeLillo
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It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the long distance bombardment…
— David Lasser
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What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years ago…
— Joel Salatin
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My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even…
— Nel Noddings
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My final coaching point of the day: It's my contention that in any given moment one lives one's life in one of two ways, either…
— Jim Steen
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.
— Paul Winchell
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My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
— Rick Moody
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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. Don't be ashamed…
— Morrie Schwartz
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It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a lovely,…
— David Whyte
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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing…
— Carrie Mae Weems
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People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from…
— Anthony de Jasay
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As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper…
— Tim Cahill
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It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny',…
— Don Ellis
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To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority…
— H. L. Mencken
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The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists…
— Robert Anton Wilson
Who Wrote These My Contention Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 My Contention Quotes as follows: