Debate Quotes - Page 26

• That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be broadcast everywhere for everyone to debate.

  Frank Lampard

  Trying, Culture, England

  "'I'm not scum' - Frank Lampard rants on radio after DJ labels him a bad father". Interview with James O’Brien, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 25, 2009.

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• As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we highlight equality for girls and women - not just women's rights. That is important as girls, especially adolescent girls, have been almost invisible in debates on equal rights. Yet it is in adolescence that events can have a huge effect on a girl's life.

  Mary Robinson

  Girl, Rights, Important

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Order, Voice, Weakness

  "David Gergen and Mark Shields on Bill Clinton's 100 Days". "PBS Newshour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 29, 1993.

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• Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  African American, Term, American Music

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.

  Michael Foot

  Views, Essentials, Democratic

  The Daily Telegraph, 1977.

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• Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry. I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis.

  George Galloway

  Sorry, Israel, Misled

  "George Galloway refuses to debate with Israeli student at Oxford" by Warren Murray, Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

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• This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Design

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• Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium - or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Light, Speed, Newton

  "The Physics of Star Trek". Book by Lawrence M. Krauss, 1995.

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• The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.

  Preston Manning

  Top Down, Doors, People

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent.

  Conor Oberst

  Book, Two, Stories

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• In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment. Whatever the better policy may be, a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of marijuana is far wiser than suppression of speech because it is unpopular.

  John Paul Stevens

  Marijuana, Expression, Issues

  Deborah Morse and the Juneau School Board, et al., Petitioners v. Joseph Frederick, 551 U.S. 393, 2007.

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• Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Hands, Years

  "Mapping Ideology" by Slavoj Žižek, p.1, 1994.

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• Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

  Charles Stross

  Running, Wall, Real

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.388, Penguin

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• Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing...

  Barry Ritholtz

  Intellectual, Losing, Hayek

  "The Left Right Paradigm is Over: Its You vs. Corporations" by Barry Ritholtz, ritholtz.com. September 27, 2010.

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• And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.

  Julian Jaynes

  Loss, Self, Order

  "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes, (Book I, Chapter 3, p. 79), 1976.

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• The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense of pride, because if you log on and say, "Oh I was just in San Diego and I was in a park and I saw a lion," the flurry of replies on average is just like--wow! All these existential questions about what it means to be an African, and never having seen a lion at home, but having seen a lion here. Everything you say turns into this real philosophical debate--it's incredible in so many ways. And it's an invigorating place to be.

  Chris Abani

  Real, Philosophical, Mean

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• Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in various ways, the argument that the project of modernity is ill-conceived and dangerously performed.

  Graham Harvey

  Issues, Addresses, Way

  Graham Harvey (2013). “Animism: Respecting the Living World”, p.12, Columbia University Press

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• Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate.

  Quinn Cummings

  Children, School, Together

  "The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling". Book by Quinn Cummings, 2012.

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• Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.

  William Poundstone

  Use, Shannon, Entropy

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.57, Macmillan

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• I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken, is likely to do less harm than the centralized decisions of a Government; and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster. As I said earlier in this debate, our economic medicine may be painful but it is fast and powerful because it can act freely.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Running, Powerful, Believe

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 216), March 24, 1966.

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• After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing. The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.

  Jo Grimond

  Country, Ideas, Listening

  The Sunday Times, September 19, 1976.

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• Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.

  Dennis Lindley

  Views, Mind, Use

  "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 6 "Bayes Rule", p. 91), 2006.

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• An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  War, Writing, Reflection

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• I can't wait for the Republican debates to start and there's literally 65 guys on one stage.

  Conan O'Brien

  Waiting, Guy, Republican

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• Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

  Kevin Spacey

  Passion, Commitment, Talking

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