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«If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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abortions, aspirin, at risk, bellies, cigarette, cirrhosis, classified, classify, commuter, commuters, controversial, emergency, fainting, onto, pregnancies, pregnancy, sexually, sexually transmitted, sexually transmitted disease, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, subject to, swell, trains, transmitted
«Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.»
Author: Dean Acheson
(Diplomat, Lawyer, Statesman)
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controversial, hallowed, hallows, proposal, proposals
«I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.»
Author: Flannery O'Connor
| Keywords:
controversial
«All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time»
«A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.»
Author: Jane Smiley
| Keywords:
belief system, controversial, germ, immune, immune system, infection, infections, overwhelm, protected, the system, vulnerable
«I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.»
«Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.»
«My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
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Experience,
Government
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beautifully, controversial, coordinate, coordinated, coordinates, coordinating
«Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
authors, controversial, welcome, welcomed, welcomes, welcoming
«When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
audience, conclusions, controversial, drawing, highly, idiosyncrasies, idiosyncrasy, limitations, observe, prejudices, speaker, Speaker of, subject, To Tell the Truth
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