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In the East, the main object is to have a well-ordered society so that everybody can have maximum enjoyment of his freedoms. This freedom can only exist in an ordered state and not in a natural state of contention and anarchy.
Lee Kuan Yew / Singaporean Politician
Society
Anarchy
Contention
East
Enjoyment
Maximum
Natural
Exist
Freedoms
Main
Natural State
Object
Ordered
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In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.
Lee Westwood / Golfer
Contention
Genuine
Golf
Golf Course
Nervous
Next
Nine
Remains
Throwing
Years
Apart
Case
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My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we'll have less people that have to go the medical clinic that provides free service or go to the emergency room - they can have their own health care plan.
Tim Walberg / U.s. Representative
Clinic
Contention
Emergency Room
Health Care
Emergency
Expand
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In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart.
Joseph B. Wirthlin / Businessman
Assurance
Calm
Comfort
Conflict
Contention
Serenity
Strife
Freedom From
Inner
Scriptures
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While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.
Johann Most / Politician
Arbitrary
Articles
Contention
Propaganda
Deed
Entertained
Effect
Held
Hundreds
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
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During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Contention
Flourishing
Nile
Perpetual
Apple
Egyptians
Powers
Ruled
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It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.
Bob Keeshan / Television Producer
Contention
Gentle
Violence
World Day People
Definition
Encounter
Importantly
Mugged
Prepare
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When you think about musicians who are reading music, my contention has always been the energy that you're using deciphering what the symbol is is taking away from the maximum creative energy that you might have had if you understood that it's but a symbol.
Cecil Taylor / Jazz Pianist
Contention
Creative Energy
Maximum
Symbol
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
Frances Wright / Writer
Bounds
Contention
Horizon
Observation
Basis
Error
None
Stands
Therefore
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Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.
James E. Faust / Lawyer
Argument
Contention
Cynicism
Doctrine
Good Sense
Intense
Invoke
Manners
Promoting
Pure
Ridicule
Winning
Zeal
Beyond
Imprudent
Let Us
Thereby
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The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God?
Mustafa Akyol / Writer
Legal
Alcohol
Categories
Contention
Islam
Islamic
Judged
Prayer
Talking
Bone
Commands
Daily
Enforced
Muslims
Obligations
Prayers
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I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.
Seth Green / Actor
Contention
Respectable
Scenic
Silly
Animators
Award
Works
Builders
Puppet
Designers
Incredibly
Seriously
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Veganism is a point of contention all year round. So much so that many vegans cut themselves off from the rest of society, huddling together for warmth and smugness, and using online forums to vent their disgust at the morally corrupt dairy- and meat-eating savages who make up most of the populace.
Romesh Ranganathan /
Contention
Dairy
Savages
Warmth
All Year
Corrupt
Disgust
Forum
Round
Make Up
Populace
Vent
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Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!
Karan Mahajan / Novelist
Contention
Drawing
Good Job
Mao
Marvellous
Replaced
Alter
Error
Terrorists
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Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. We would have no bickering, quarreling, strife, or contention in our homes. We would not offend or insult one another either verbally or in any other way. We would not have unnecessary litigation over small matters.
Joseph B. Wirthlin / Businessman
Bickering
Contention
Insult
Strife
Unnecessary
Offend
Any Other Way
Disciples
Loves
Homes
Litigation
Verbally
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As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing.
Tim Cahill / Soccer Player
Adventure
Army
Contention
Editors
Jungle
Leper
Race
Saga
Writing
Meant
Cooper
Hemingway
James
Magazine
Outdoor
Twain
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When I'm playing my best and find myself in contention late on Sundays, it's usually when I'm not thinking about my swing, but rather trusting my setup and smoothly pulling the trigger. I won't completely rely on feel - I like to keep a few images in the back of my mind to make sure that I get the most out of my driver, irons and wedges.
Sergio Garcia / Golfer
Contention
Rely
Driver
Images
Irons
Setup
Smoothly
Sundays
Swing
Trigger
Trusting
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
L. Lionel Kendrick / Author
Anger
Respect
Truth
Affection
Clarity
Compassion
Condemnation
Confusion
Contention
Criticism
Fabrication
May
Ridicule
Tough
Communications
Correction
Counsel
Expressions
Must
Spoken
Tempered
Tender
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Currently, many job seekers must check a box on their applications indicating whether they have a criminal history. These boxes are often used as proxies for job fitness, and job-seekers with criminal histories frequently find themselves screened out of contention. As a matter of basic fairness and also economic sense, it's time to ban the box.
Bob Casey, Jr. / United States Senator
Fitness
Boxes
Contention
Fairness
Seekers
Applications
Currently
Ban
Check
Criminal
Frequently
Histories
Screened
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