Controversy Quotes
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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
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The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.
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I wouldn't call it a controversy. I'd call it some questions being asked: 'Do we have the best rules?
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My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.
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The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
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A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy.
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Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.
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First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe at all events when viva voce worse than useless.
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God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.
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I am used to controversies.
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Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.
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... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena - care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!
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When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.
