Debate Quotes - Page 29

• It's too hard to present an opinion on something that's not true to who you are. It's much easier to base opinions and debates off of fact and your true heart on things. To me that just comes quite naturally, and it's also about being open to what the debate is about and hearing the other side.

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck

  Heart, Hearing, Facts

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• I dare anyone to debate me on things.

  Charlie Sheen

  Dare

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.today.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.

  Dylan McDermott

  Running, Thinking, Media

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• Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Girl, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Thinking, Way, Sides

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• In my eyes, concepts of theology have only as much value as they are able to interpret experience. It seems to me that we have long reached the point where we theologians only talk to ourselves and debate with our own history of concepts.

  Eugen Drewermann

  Eye, Long, Able

  "Wort des Heils, Wort der Heilung". Book by Eugen Drewermann, 1989.

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• the word 'justification' has itself had a chequered career over the course of many centuries of debate. As the major historian of the doctrine has noted, the word has long since ceased to mean, in ecclesial debates, what it meant for Paul himself - which is confusing, since the debates have gone on referring to Paul as though he was in fact talking about what they want to talk about. It is as though the greengrocer treated you to a long discussion of how onions are grown, and how best to cook with them, when what you had asked was how much he would charge for three of them.

  N. T. Wright

  Mean, Talking, Careers

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• I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.

  Russell T Davies

  Oxygen, People, Given

  "Amy Winehouse would be a great Doctor" by Ben Dowell, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2008.

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• Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Real, West, Culture

  "Nigeria's immorality is about hypocrisy, not miniskirts" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2008.

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• I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Thinking, Political

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• The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Country, War, Fighting

  Aneurin Bevan, Peter J. Laugharne (1996). “Aneurin Bevan: Speeches at Westminster, 1929-1944”

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• I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Believe, Past, Men

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• As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

  Candy Crowley

  Country, Grateful, Opportunity

  "CNN's Candy Crowley Will Be First Woman in 20 Years to Moderate a Presidential Debate" by Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.

  David M. Brown

  America, Thought Provoking, Ambitious

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• I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Mean, Iraq

  "Wolfowitz On U.S. Role In Other Nations' Affairs". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 05, 2009.

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• There is much debate in the scientific community as to the precise sources of global warming.

  Pat Toomey

  Community, Global Warming, Source

  "Sestak, Toomey on opposite sides of energy debate". www.post-gazette.com. June 14, 2010.

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• The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.

  T. Colin Campbell

  People, Missing, Healthy

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• We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Russia, Democracy, Liberty

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• The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

  Fred Upton

  Opposites, Obamacare, Quality

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• The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.

  Phil Donahue

  Presidential, Democracy, Presidential Debate

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• ...it is the Far Right today that establishes the terms of the nuclear debate. And in this context, in a room ringing with hysterical pleas on behalf of Reagan's eerie laser-beam technology, the MacBundys of the world seem eminently, refreshingly sane.

  David Talbot

  Technology, Eerie, Lasers

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• We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.

  Hugh Sidey

  Wrestling, Creating, Presidential

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• There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long as the income of 50 percent of the population is below the median." Mr. Vidal will take the affirmative.

  M. Stanton Evans

  Long, Population, Income

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• But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for example, the issue is constantly raised, often with considerable venom. I've repeatedly been challenged on grounds of credentials, or asked, what special training do you have that entitles you to speak of these matters. The assumption is that people like me, who are outsiders from a professional viewpoint, are not entitled to speak on such things.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hands, Issues, People

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• The weird thing about serious acting is I've always done impressions of people, all my life, and I did the thing called a balloon debate. The idea is there's a hot air balloon traveling across the Atlantic and it's going down and you have to give a speech as to why you should stay in the balloon. Six people are going to be chucked out and you want to stay.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Ideas, Air, People

  JustJared.com interview, www.justjared.com. December 21, 2011.

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