"The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not……" — Samuel Johnson

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• He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too,… — Tertullian
• This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of… — Alexander Hamilton
• It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a… — Thomas Jefferson
• The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful… — Martin Luther
• Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that… — Roy Baumeister
• That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But… — Robert J. Sawyer
• The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case… — George Gaylord Simpson
• Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism… — Llewellyn Rockwell
• Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed… — Curnonsky
• Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of… — James Taranto

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