Debate Quotes

• A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Faith, Believe

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.161

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• For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Ideas, Innovation, Needs

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• It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Nature, Humorous, Profound

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Differences, Long, Intellectual

  "In Musharraf's Words: 'A Day of Reckoning'". www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2002.

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• When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

  Socrates

  Life, Words Of Wisdom, Tools

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• Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, People, Organize

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2014). “Hard Choices”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stars, Light, Darkness

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.472, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Winning, Giving, Political

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• The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

  Steven Pinker

  Book, Political, Enlightenment

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 8, 2002.

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• The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

  E. B. White

  Moving, Knights, Organization

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.200, Cornell University Press

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• A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Boxers, Philosopher

  "Personal Recollections" by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6, (Conversation of 1930), 1981.

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• The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Dance, Art, Our World

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

  Heinz Pagels

  Science, Helping, Moral

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• This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Men, Age, Democracy

  Science for the Citizen (1938) epilogue

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• The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

  David Antin

  Pieces, World, Entertainment

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• Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

  Aldrich Ames

  Europe, Gdp, Invasion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

  Susan Estrich

  Years, Issues, Speech

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• But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Philosophy, Prejudice, Needs

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• Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.

  Bennie Thompson

  Senior, America, Special

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• That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

  Georg Brandes

  Hygiene, Literature, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  Caleb Cushing

  People, Rejection, Adoption

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• Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

  Arthur Peacocke

  World, Natural, Century

  Arthur Peacocke (2005). “The Palace of Glory: God's World and Science”, p.13, ATF Press

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• Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

  Rich Lowry

  Presidential, Different, Three

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• Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?

  Marco Rubio

  Guy, Would Be, Trump

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Marco Rubio hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I've never heard of this. What - look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands - if they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you, there's no problem. I guarantee you.

  Donald Trump

  Hands, Looks, Guarantees

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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