- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disputed Quotes
On doubt, debate, and truth.
These disputed quotes range from contested territory to disputed word origins, showing how disagreement often precedes real understanding, a theme shared with Age quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is more disputed in England than it is in Italy. Every match is a very hard match because the referee doesn't blow his whistle as much as in Italy, and every team plays against each other like it is a final. I enjoy it more in England because you have to think quicker. The pace of the game is faster, so you don't have much time to think.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is more disputed in England than it is in Italy. Every match is a very hard match because the referee doesn't blow his whistle as much as in Italy, and every team plays against each other like it is a final.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020