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In the art of life, our understanding deepens not with louder echoes, but by delicately accolading silence, revealing clarity as moments of haste scatter registers of clarity.
Author:
Elise Thames
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In the crucible of opposing ideas, intellectual humility transforms leaden certainty into golden understanding.
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Maya Villasenor
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To "ignite genuine intellect, we must first kindle a flame of humility--that's when ideas shatter boundaries and forge stunning revelations.
Author:
Lirta Frances
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Don't raise your voice, improve your argument
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Desmond Tutu
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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.
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Diane Wood
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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Rainn Wilson
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One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
Author:
Bradley Whitford
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Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.
Author:
Reggie White
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Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.
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Anthony Weiner
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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.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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Randall Terry
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
Author:
Randall Terry
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That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
Author:
Studs Terkel
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Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.
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Helen Suzman
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If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
Author:
Oliver Stone
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In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.
Author:
Joseph Stiglitz
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I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'
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Jon Stewart
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The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.
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Michael Simpson
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There's been a lot said about Social Security reform. What has been left out of the debate is the double tax on Social Security benefits. I believe it's time to get rid of a tax that punishes seniors and discourages work and retirement savings.
Author:
Rob Simmons
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The questions are scientific, but the UN answers are political. The global warming debate is hardly about science.
Author:
Allen Simmons
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Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.
Author:
George Shultz
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Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.
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John Shimkus
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But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.
Author:
John Shimkus
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As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.
Author:
Jose Serrano
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Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
Author:
Bobby Scott
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Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.
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Gerhard Schroder
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But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.
Author:
Bob Schieffer
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This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.
Author:
Sydney Schanberg
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The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
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Jessica Savitch
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To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.
Author:
George Saintsbury
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Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on this issue has, unfortunately, moved into dangerous unethical territory when perfectly moral alternatives exist.
Author:
Jim Ryun
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While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.
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Tim Ryan
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I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
Author:
Jeremy Rifkin
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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.
Author:
Adam Rickitt
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We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.
Author:
Rick Renzi
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I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
Author:
Dave Reichert
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.
Author:
David Price
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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Author:
Colin Powell
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Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.
Author:
Kathleen Parker
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I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.
Author:
William Odom
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During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.
Author:
Conan O'Brien
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After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
Author:
Barack Obama
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I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.
Author:
Jeremy Northam
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right.
Author:
Robert Nelson
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Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.
Author:
Richard Neal
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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.
Author:
Dick Morris
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I don't debate with liars.
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Evo Morales
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
Author:
Ed Miliband
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I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
Author:
Moses Mendelssohn
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But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.
Author:
Jim McDermott
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Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.
Author:
Chris Matthews
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When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.
Author:
Margo MacDonald
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The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.
Author:
Rich Lowry
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The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.
Author:
David Letterman
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Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.
Author:
Jay Leno
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People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.
Author:
Jim Lehrer
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Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.
Author:
Robert Laughlin
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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
Author:
Ted Kulongoski
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I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.
Author:
Dennis Kucinich
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
Author:
Barbara Kruger
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A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
Author:
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
Author:
Vanessa Kerry
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With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.
Author:
Frank Keating
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Is there something to be said for the writings of the Marquis? Is there something to be said for pornography? And is there something to be said against both? I hope our film is balanced and rich enough to encourage debate and discussion.
Author:
Philip Kaufman
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I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
Author:
Elena Kagan
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Author:
Joseph Joubert
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
Author:
Barbara Jordan
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I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.
Author:
Stephanie Jones
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I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.
Author:
Stephanie Jones
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You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive.
Author:
Michael Johns
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Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.
Author:
Peter Jennings
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I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time.
Author:
Bianca Jagger
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Author:
Jesse Jackson
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The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
Author:
Joichi Ito
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Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.
Author:
James Inhofe
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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Author:
Hubert Humphrey
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
Author:
Karen Hughes
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Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.
Author:
Karen Hughes
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.
Author:
Anthony Holden
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After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.
Author:
Robyn Hitchcock
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The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.
Author:
Dennis Hastert
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If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation.
Author:
Raul Grijalva
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While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.
Author:
Raul Grijalva
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
Author:
Pam Grier
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I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!
Author:
Harold Greene
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I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
Author:
Clifford Geertz
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
Author:
Charles Gaulle
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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
Author:
Garet Garrett
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Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.
Author:
Robert Fripp
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The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.
Author:
Thomas Friedman
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There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.
Author:
Joschka Fischer
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As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.
Author:
Bob Filner
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We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate.
Author:
Suzanne Fields
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I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.
Author:
Lion Feuchtwanger
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I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.
Author:
Geraldine Ferraro
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See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.
Author:
Geraldine Ferraro
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We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.
Author:
Russ Feingold
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I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.
Author:
Recep Erdogan
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As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.
Author:
John Engler
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Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword.
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Charles Ellison
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Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
Author:
Arthur Eddington
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We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.
Author:
Georges Duhamel
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This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.
Author:
Byron Dorgan
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I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.
Author:
Alan Dershowitz
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What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
Author:
Bill Delahunt
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The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
Author:
Bill Delahunt
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I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.
Author:
Mitch Daniels
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Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
Author:
Caleb Cushing
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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
Author:
Caleb Cushing
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Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
Author:
Michael Crichton
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I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.
Author:
Phil Crane
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When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.
Author:
Ann Coulter
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Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
Author:
Ann Coulter
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Debate is the death of conversation.
Author:
Kitty Collins
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As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable.
Author:
Howard Coble
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What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
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Hillary Clinton
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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Ward Churchill
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A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.
Author:
Dick Cheney
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Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
Author:
Hugo Chavez
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I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.
Author:
Robert Casey
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Historical reenactments must thread the needle between remembrance and perfumption, stirring vivid pasts while avoiding an excusable escapism that distorts true horrors.
Author:
Ideally Schad
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Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.
Author:
Donald Carcieri
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I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.
Author:
Peter Camejo
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One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.
Author:
Rocco Buttiglione
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There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four.
Author:
Chester Brown
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Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.
Author:
Phil Bredesen
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One can always debate questions back and forth.
Author:
Robert Bourassa
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While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation.
Author:
Jo Bonner
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Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Author:
Edward Bond
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As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
Author:
Earl Blumenauer
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We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.
Author:
Marsha Blackburn
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I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.
Author:
Judy Biggert
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No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.
Author:
Joe Biden
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Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.
Author:
Howard Berman
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Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.
Author:
Paul Begala
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Politics calls for robust debate and criticism, but this should never descend to personal and demeaning slurs.
Author:
Kim Beazley
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There is zero debate about whether the world is getting warmer. That is a fact, a measured fact. There is some debate, although not much anymore, about what's causing the world to get warmer. And the consensus, by far is that it's us.
Author:
Peter Barnes
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
Author:
Ibrahim Babangida
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In silence, ears enlarge and hearts abandon preconceptions; therein lies the philanthropy of consideration in our dialogue.
Author:
Samson Calder
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I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.
Author:
Gary Ackerman
