"The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood…" — Thomas Carlyle

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• It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's… — Julian Assange
• If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. — Julian Assange
• We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the… — Marcus Aurelius
• I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy… — Amitabh Bachchan
• Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce
• It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who… — Samuel Butler
• The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us… — Dick Cheney
• I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
• He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too,… — Tertullian
• I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave… — Abraham Lincoln
• For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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