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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
Author:
William Yeats
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
Author:
Lionel Trilling
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The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
Author:
Albion Small
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Author:
George Shaw
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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Author:
Saint Sales
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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that.
Author:
Anthony Quinn
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It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
Author:
Matthew Prior
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.
Author:
Slobodan Milosevic
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Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
Author:
John McCrae
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I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
Author:
Christopher Marlowe
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Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Author:
Horace Mann
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War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
Author:
Charles Mackay
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We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right.
Author:
Norman Lear
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We will separate, but we will not quarrel.
Author:
Amos Lawrence
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Author:
Soren Kierkegaard
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I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel.
Author:
Grace Kelly
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In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.
Author:
Herman Kahn
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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Author:
Dean Inge
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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
Author:
Edgar Howe
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If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.
Author:
Francis Head
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
Author:
Rafik Hariri
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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
Author:
Edward Halifax
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Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
Author:
David George
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Author:
Robert Frost
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I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Author:
Robert Frost
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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Author:
Robert Frost
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Author:
Robert Frost
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Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
Author:
George Etherege
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
Author:
George Eliot
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I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
Author:
Mary Eddy
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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
Author:
Cyril Connolly
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
Author:
Neville Chamberlain
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.
Author:
Abu Bakr
