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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
.....When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
..........— William Hazlitt (1778-1830), English essayist, critic. "The Spirit of Controversy," The Atlas magazine (January 31, 1830), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Volume Twelve (1904).
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Originally Posted by kennyc
Very interesting quote and I think very true!
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I also agree, although from time to time I post quotations and excerpts with which I disagree but consider post-worthy by virtue of being thought-provoking. The best example of someone who did this in a book of quotations was George Seldes with his
The Great Quotations (1961). As I recall (I don't have the book before me, and—crime against humanity that it is—neither the book or it's update
The Great Thoughts (1985) are available as ebooks), in the Preface, Seldes defined "great" quotations as being those that impacted society in significant ways for either good or ill; thus a
great quotation is not necessarily a
good quotation from a moral perspective.