As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.
The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.
I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute.
When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.
In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.
I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment. I can resolve those cases in a moment.
Bob Sanders wasn't the biggest guy coming out of Erie, Pa., but I don't think anybody would dispute that he was a pretty good player for us.
If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations.
No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.
I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute,
From the centre all round to the sea,
I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.
Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.
The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.
It's a simple question of supply and demand. But all of us are grossly overpaid. I think it's a ridiculous dispute.
Your credit report should be 100% accurate, so make sure everything is entirely correct. If something doesn't look right, dispute it.
I was jailed for using words that I still dispute. Anyone who's ever met me will tell you that I'm not a violent person.
Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that we do create it and also crave it is beyond dispute.
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
Russia and Ukraine are candidates for the entry to the WTO and their dispute would be easy to understand and tackle if they are both members of this organization.
There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.
The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response
Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.
The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.
Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.
I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.
[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .
Germany and Israel should dream together for a Middle East in which all the countries are willing to exchange the dispute of the parents with peace for their children.
People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.
You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.
I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.
It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
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