"Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in……" — Samuel Johnson

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• We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the… — Marcus Aurelius
• I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention. — Charles Barkley
• In mathematics there are no true controversies. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I… — George Washington
• One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable… — Arthur Schuster
• No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy,… — Rudolf Virchow
• Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact,… — John Donne
• Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the… — Luis Fernando Verissimo
• For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our Founding Fathers. They set… — Sonia Sotomayor
• Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. — George Washington
• Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and… — Elaine Pagels
• But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the… — Philipp Melanchthon

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