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  • On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies. On serious ground, gather in plunder. In difficult ground, keep steadily on the march. On hemmed-in ground, resort to stratagem. On desperate ground, fight.

    Art   Block   Military  
    Sun Tzu (2012). “The Art of War (The Classic Lionel Giles Translation)”, p.29, e-artnow
  • I don't even like playing a contentious role.

  • The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely.

    "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.
  • You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes. Then the question is, "How do you face up to violence?" And then you have to have a no-compromise position. And this is quite simply a lesson we learn in the school playground.

    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a mere barren speculative dispute.... This point of election... is not to be agitated in a verbal and contentious way, but in a saving way, to make us tremble and to set us upon a more diligent and close striving with God in prayer, and all other duties.

    Prayer   Curiosity   Way  
  • I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.

    Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.
  • Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

    Mom   Taste   Becoming  
    "Edie Brickell ready for 'Picture Perfect' comeback". www.today.com. December 31, 2003.
  • Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

    Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.
  • Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.

  • I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

    Agreement   Land   Long  
  • The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

    Games   Two   Favour  
  • What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious. It was emotional. But ultimately, they made a decision to recognize civil marriage. And I think that's exactly how things should work.

    "Obama Challenges GOP Lawmakers In Budget Debate". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. June 29, 2011.
  • Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.

    Hurt   People   Dare  
  • I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

    Funny   School   Mean  
    "Keanu Heads Down Under With 'Constantine'". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2005.
  • The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

  • My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

    Mom   Dad   Two  
    "Matt Damon: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.
  • Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

  • Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.

  • ...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared.

    Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.169, Bantam
  • Aikido is the principle of non-resistance. Because it is non-resistant, it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious thoughts are instantly vanquished. Aikido is invincible because it contends with nothing.

  • For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

    Focus   Different   World  
    David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.51, Egmont UK
  • One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves resentful feeling in homes, in hearts, in businesses and professions, and in all kinds of gatherings in public and private places, and in all relationships of life-and with so little that it ever seems to settle!

    Home   Heart   Feelings  
  • What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards that regard dissent as an obligation and that treat no subject as undiscussable.

    Boards   Social   Robust  
  • I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing is you gotta keep pickin' up in paces. That's why we're playing contentious play. We got top names, guys can still hit in the majors, guys been out of the game hittin' the ball, shockin' it. Don't have no old, old guys. Not sayin' they don't get a good job done. Fact is, they've been vice versa. So that's incentive right there. It's been a plus.

    Jobs   Real   Team  
  • Condoleezza Rice was confirmed by a vote of 85, 13, despite a contentious but futile protest vote by democrats. By the way, for a fun second term drinking game, chug a beer every time you hear the phrase 'contentious but futile protest vote by democrats.' By the time Jeb Bush is elected, you'll be so wasted you won't even notice the war in Syria.

    Fun   War   Drinking  
  • Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!

    Evil   Lazy   Taught  
  • One of the good things is the relationship between director and editor used to be more contentious. Studios used to leave directors alone more during the post production process and now they're clamoring to get in. So, the director and the editor end up teaming up sort of against the studio to fight what they're doing and you lose the creative tension that you used to have between an editor and a director.

    Source: www.moviesonline.ca
  • Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has not yet learned what truth is really like; once he has truly learned it, he will cease from zealousness on its behalf.

  • Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

    Summer   Nature   Spring  
    Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com
  • The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

    Ideas   Cezanne   Selling  
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