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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.
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Thomas Watson, Sr.
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I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.
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Martha Smith
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
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Kate Smith
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Benjamin Rush
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No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
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Hilary Putnam
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In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.
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Jon Porter
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But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
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Nancy Pelosi
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Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.
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Conan O'Brien
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There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
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Kenneth Miller
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A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that.
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Todd McFarlane
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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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Norman Lear
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I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.
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Calvin Klein
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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Martin King, Jr.
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The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
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Leon Kass
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I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.
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Lance Ito
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
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Oliver Holmes
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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William Hazlitt
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If it matters, it produces controversy.
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Jay Greene
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For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.
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Hugh Grant
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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
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Garet Garrett
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Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
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Felix Frankfurter
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I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.
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Brenda Fassie
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Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.
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Gregg Easterbrook
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For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
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Gregg Easterbrook
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Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
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Stephen Douglas
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
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Chauncey Depew
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It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.
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Keith David
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He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.
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Keith Carradine
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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Samuel Butler
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Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
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Solomon Burke
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Buddha
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I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.
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James Buckley
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
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Ambrose Bierce
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No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
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Lyman Beecher
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I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
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John Barton
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That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.
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Michael Baden
