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Difference of opinion   /dˈɪfərəns əv əpˈɪnjən/   Listen
Difference of opinion

noun
1.
A disagreement or argument about something important.  Synonyms: conflict, difference, dispute.  "There were irreconcilable differences" , "The familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"






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"Difference of opinion" Quotes from Famous Books



... As to the difference of opinion between the North and the South regarding Negro education, I find that many people, especially in the North, have a wrong conception of the attitude of the Southern white people. It is and has been very generally thought that what ...
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various

... of the Ruthenian Greek Orthodox rite, laying emphasis on the persecution that their faith had suffered from Russia and on the liberty that Poland promised them. "Fear not that the difference of opinion and rite will hinder our loving you as brothers and fellow-countrymen. ... Let Poland recognize in your devotion her faithful sons. Thus you have the road open before you to your happiness ...
— Kosciuszko - A Biography • Monica Mary Gardner

... confine the original jurisdiction of the federal courts to cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and argued that jurisdiction over other cases involving federal law might be conferred upon state courts. This was a point on which there had been some difference of opinion between Hamilton and Madison. The former held that it was within the competency of Congress, when instituting tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court, to adopt the state courts for that purpose. Madison held that nothing less than a system of federal courts quite distinct from ...
— Washington and His Colleagues • Henry Jones Ford

... of rendering an actual service in the treatment of certain diseases. It might, for example, be used where one's power of digestion is greatly impaired, since alcohol requires no digestion. But upon this point there is a decided difference of opinion. Certain it is that no one should attempt to use alcohol as food or medicine except under the advice ...
— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.

... glorious meeting in the holy city, under the personal reign of Christ. The divisions among Christians arise, as Bunyan justly says, from antichristian rubbish, darkness, and trumpery; the great evil arising from difference of opinion, is that lust of domination over the faith of others which naturally leads to bitterness and persecution. In the earliest days one was of Paul, another of Apollos, and another of Cephas. The exercise of Christian forbearance was not an act ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan


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