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• I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Insightful, Insane

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• In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Government, Ideas, Synthesis

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• The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

  Fred M. Vinson

  Government, Ideas, Firsts

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• He who defines the terms, controls the debate.

  Mike Evans

  Israel, Term

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• I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

  Adam Rickitt

  Faith, Religious, Thinking

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• Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

  Zach Wamp

  Money, Winning, People

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• It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.

  Diane Wood

  Time, Long, Focus

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• No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.

  William Borah

  Heart, Law, Brain

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• Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Wisdom, Ideas, Profound

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• Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

  David Nicholls

  Skills, Ideas, Giving

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.83, Villard

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• American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

  Joseph Nye

  World, Openness, American Power

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• The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good.

  Jay Carney

  Thinking, Order, People

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• In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Running, Lying, Talking

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• The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.

  Arthur Caplan

  Baby, School, Doctors

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• These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation.

  Chris Christie

  Intellectual, Widows, Want

  "2016 May Seem Just Around The Corner For Political Rivals". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 31, 2013.

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• Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

  Dick Morris

  Fighting, Democratic Socialism, Challenges

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• Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Moving, Sloth, Noise

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.421, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And we debate whether it's a - some woman's right to tear you out of there a piece at a time! C'mon! You have a God-given right to live. And of all places, inside your mother - what in the world happened to us?

  Phil Robertson

  Mother, Tears, Pieces

  "‘Duck Dynasty’ Star Blasts Abortion Culture: ‘What in the World Happened to Us?’" by Matt Vespa, www.newsbusters.org. August 20, 2013.

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• Preaching is the primary means of growth for the local church. There is a great deal of debate about this in our day, but it is the preaching of the Word that God most uses to build up a church, not only numerically but above all (and far more importantly) in spiritual depth and understanding of the people who make up the congregation.

  James Montgomery Boice

  Spiritual, Mean, People

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• The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

  Rich Lowry

  Years, Levels, Rage

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• Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.

  Chip Conley

  Political, Entrepreneur, Suits

  "What Drives an Entrepreneur?" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2011.

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• American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ are an authentic document or a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do control the world.

  Gilad Atzmon

  Zion, World, Jew

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• The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry. I watch certain politicians get asked questions that need answers and may just prance around with a big laugh and smile on my face. Politicians have an arrogance. I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debate since high school.

  Paolo Nutini

  School, Laughing, Arrogance

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• As debate is rare in the House of Representatives, since nearly all real business is done in the committees, it is very natural that such debate as there is should be very oratorical, should be

  D. W Brogan

  Real, House, Done

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• One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

  Ed Rollins

  Political, Majority, Events

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