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«The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant»
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Author, Clergyman, Pastor, Speaker, Writer)
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disputant, disputants, downright, slippery
«Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him»
«How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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dared, deflated, deflates, deflating, disputant, disputants, dispute, paragraph, paragraphing
«PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply --the sword, the spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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and so forth, arbiter, attendance, courageous, defect, disputant, disputants, disputes, formerly, International, international affairs, in attendance, physical contact, projectile, propulsion, prudence, rudimentary, settled, spear, The Times
«True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.»
«If any human being earnestly desires to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative know»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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demonstrative, discoveries, disputant, disputants, earnestly, hostile, push on, retaining
«Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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blacken, blackened, blackens, disputant, disputants, extricate, extricated, scuttle, scuttled, Scuttling
«Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Controversy
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controversies, disputant, disputants, faction, factions, heated, provoked, speculative
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