{"quotes":[{"text":"Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts.","author":"Ezra Taft Benson","tags":["conflict","contention","family","hostile","lord"],"id":749,"author_id":"Ezra+Taft+Benson"},{"text":"Life is a race against time.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessing","contention","employment","finance","job","jobless","joblessness","life","money","purpose","race","time","work"],"id":25282,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Even expression of love becomes bone of contention if destiny so desires.","author":"Girdhar Joshi","tags":["contention","destiny","love"],"id":55530,"author_id":"Girdhar+Joshi"},{"text":"Contention with all its variations is one of the most destructive forces in home and society. Lying and stealing are only extensions of basic problems in the home environment. Some psychologists of the day would label such malfunctions as 'normal.' 'Ignore it,'they say. 'It's a normal stage which children will outgrow.'The fact is that quarreling, lying, and stealing are not necessary or normal to proper growth and development and are as much a menace to society as to the home and the individuals. Almost all children have some of these feelings in their makeup. Nut learning to control feelings rather than letting the feelings control the person is the secret to happiness.","author":"Clyde F. Boyle","tags":["contention","control","emotions","happiness"],"id":120489,"author_id":"Clyde+F.+Boyle"},{"text":"Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.","author":"Claude Lévi-Strauss","tags":["anthropology","contention","doubt","knowledge","scepticism","science","scientific-knowledge","skepticism"],"id":287572,"author_id":"Claude+L%C3%A9vi-Strauss"},{"text":"Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["balance","contention","contradictions"],"id":317726,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","argument","arguments","beliefs","conflict","contention","data","debate","debates","democracy","dialogue","disagreement","discourse","discussion","disputation","dispute","dissension","education","funny","history","humor","humour","identity","information","learn","learning","negotiation","parley","of-the-day","quoteoftheday","satire","school","statistics","talks","university","war-of-words"],"id":351868,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}