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Contentious Quotes

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Francis Bacon
Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...”
Francis Bacon

Donna Lynn Hope
“If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained.”
Donna Lynn Hope

Francine  Rivers
“A contentious woman was worse than a leaking roof.”
Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

Nate Silver
“In any contentious debate, some people will find it advantageous to align themselves with the crowd, while a smaller number will come to see themselves as persecuted outsiders. This may especially hold in a field like climate science, where the data is noisy and the predictions are hard to experience in a visceral way. And it may be especially common in the United States, which is admirably independent-minded.”
Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't