#dispute

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. ↗

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#ages #also #arguing #both #demonstrated

I don't think anybody would dispute that we're seeing a warming of the Earth. ↗

— Dirk Kempthorne

#dispute #earth #i #seeing #think

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#concern #disputes #great #lead #longer

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#dispute #hussein #menace #saddam #saddam hussein

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#consider #die #dispute #during #enraged

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth? ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#am #believing #between #centre #church

...Obyann, you're talking about the Landemere-Ramaldah border dispute of 1416. Damn it, man, that was in the time of our grandfathers. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#borders #feuds #grudges #land-disputes #sins-of-the-fathers

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter. ↗

— Francis Bond Head

#butter #dispute #me #only #quarrel

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#classical #dead #dispute #distribution #emphasis

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#means #settling #talk