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"Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not Dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove." »Cardinal John Newman
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"Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a Dispute." »Nathaniel Emmons
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"In a philosophical Dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most." »Epicurus
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"To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the Dispute." »Aristotle
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"The partisan, when he is engaged in a Dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions." »Plato
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"In every Dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm." »Isaac Rosenfeld
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"Never enter into Dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another." »Thomas Jefferson
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"The pain of Dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb." »Joseph Joubert
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"The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer Dispute about whether it is flat." »Vilhjlmur Stefnsson
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"Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they Dispute, but they all worship money." »Mark Twain
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"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I Dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." »Frank Zappa
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