We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am used to controversies.
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
Who knows controversies better than me? The controversies always chase people who are active and decision makers.
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.
Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.
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