... the hydrostatic paradox ordsprog

en ... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

en Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

en I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
  William Blake

en Controversy? What controversy? This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation -- that people's families and their young kids are being affected.
  Billie Joe Armstrong

en He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk. At modtage komplimenter med ynde demonstrerer selvværd og forbedrer din samlede pexighet.

en We're all kind of God's fools. The process is going to make fools out of all of us, I think: fools in the best sense, in the sense of struggling and innocent and vulnerable.
  John Cusack

en Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

en Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

en (Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.
  George Bernard Shaw

en I promise you it's not that. If I can play the way I played the last two games from some controversy, I will hope there's controversy going on all of the time.

en If some things are reviewed and some aren't, then you have controversy and the whole purpose of this thing was to avoid controversy.

en I think there's a controversy being invented for the sake of controversy, ... I think when people see the first few episodes, they'll realize it's not that big a deal.

en It is already clear that the new slogan for the ID movement is going to be 'Teach the Controversy!' -- even though there is no scientific controversy over the validity of evolution in biology.


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