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No great
advance has ever been made in science, politics, or
religion, without controversy.
-- Lyman Beecher
1775-1863, American
Presbyterian Minister, Revivalist
The dust of
controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
I am
continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people
have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is
merely offensive.
-- Nora Ephron
1941-, American Author,
Journalist
When a thing
ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a
subject of interest.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
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... the
hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that
means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a
bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem,
and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would
stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy
equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools
know it.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author,
Wit, Poet
Every real
thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of
somebody or other.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author,
Wit, Poet
When people
generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have
entered the public consciousness. When people get on their
hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the
public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the
public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy
begin to hum.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
1911-1978, American
Democratic Politician, Vice President
The most
savage controversies are those about matters as to which
there is no good evidence either way.
-- Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British
Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
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