When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important
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When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important
My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.
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