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contentions
«It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
| Keywords:
Aesop, contention, contentions, hares, tortoise, tortoises
«It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.»
Author: Deborah Tannen
| Keywords:
animosities, animosity, contention, contentions, discourse, General Public, headlined, headlines, taken over, tendency
«Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions»
Author: Edward Coke
(Jurist)
| About:
Certainty,
Uncertainty
| Keywords:
at variance, contentions, repose, variance
«But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.»
«For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.»
«A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping»
«And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus; / And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
asunder, Barnabas, brethren, chose, contention, contentions, Cyprus, departed, grace of God, Paul, recommended, sailed, Silas
«But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.»
«A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.»
