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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.”

Light Certain Sun Wise One Thing Weight Debate Rays Rays Of Light

Author:Arthur Eddington

“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.”

Long Issues Coffee Debate Intense Good Friend

Author:Phil Crane

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.”

“A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.”

Should Stories Fighting Argument Debate Bars Discussion Provoking Occasional Good Story

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“As long as we cling to the superstition that we must look to government for money supply, instead of requiring it to look to us, just so long must we remain the subjects of government and it is vain to follow this or that policy or party or ism in the hope of salvation. We can control government and our own destiny only through our money power and until we exert that power it is useless for us to debate the pros and cons of political programs.”

Looks Long Government Political Party Destiny Subjects Policy Program Salvation Debate Making Money Useless Vain Superstitions Isms Money Power Pros And Cons

Author:E.C. Riegel

“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.”

Has Beens Made Sometimes Progress Relation Debate Isolation Engagement Imperfect Regimes Diplomatic Libya Diplomatic Relations

Author:Earl Blumenauer

“In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate about one of the most anguished political crises of our times.”

Thinking Way Political Crisis Debate Our Time Parting Butlers Culmination

Author:Jacqueline Rose

“The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.”

People Way Purpose Belief Differences Democracy Greater Endure Debate Backgrounds Strongest Lively Greater Purpose

Author:Barack Obama

“Who wins at the end of the day? The self-satisfied people who heatedly debate some obscure details? Or the people who sidestep the entire debate and get started?”

People Ends Self Winning Details Debate Satisfied The End Of The Day Obscure

Book:I Will Teach You To Be Rich

Source: I Will Teach You To Be Rich

“What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary”

Stills Play Seems Humanity Social Differences Roles Worry Evidence Gender Contrary Debate Biology Nurture Social Science Scientific Evidence Gender Differences Nature Vs Nurture

Author:Simon Baron-Cohen

“I'm a talker. I love a good debate.”

Author:Katherine Heigl

“If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.”

Ifs Country Body Argument Worthy Debate

Author:Barack Obama

“For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.”

Names Decision Mistake Principles Calling Treats Debate Substitutes Delay Name Calling Absolutism Inaugural Speech

Author:Barack Obama

“You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.”

People Two Whole Ideals Relation Debate Awful Two Things Mum Working Life

Author:Emma Thompson

“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.”

States Issues Gay Conflict Debate Supposed To Be

Author:Pam Grier

“Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.”

Want Political Interest Solutions Debate Practicals Political Debates

Author:Carole Bouquet

“We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.”

Men Speak Voice Feminist Debate Defined Moralist Right Man

Author:Camille

“In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.”

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Author:Beatrix Campbell

“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.”

“Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and no amount of logical discourse will move him from his belief. If a Mormon and Catholic were to debate the merits of their respective religions, neither could see his own inconsistencies and logical fallacies, but would see the other's quite clearly.”

Ifs Self Moving Religion Individual Belief Amount Behavior Majors Catholic Debate Merit Contradiction Logical Evident Discourse Viruses Fallacy Belief Systems Inconsistency Logical Fallacy

Author:Darrel Ray

“The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on a Roman cross. As in our day, debate and disagreement centred largely not on the story but on the significance of Jesus. Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to be weighed and assessed critically.”

Stories Today Christian Jesus Accepting Taught Evidence Crosses Miracle Valuable Accepted Debate Plenty Opponents Significance Historian Disciple Disagreement

Book:The Gospels and Jesus

Source: The Gospels and Jesus

“There is no debate whether we need a cultural policy or not. We do need it, but there are different ways of doing it.”

Way Needs Different Policy Europe Debate Different Ways

Author:Frederic Martel

“I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was one of my top priorities. I applaud the President on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm Saddam Hussein... Others have talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons.”

“My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?”

Long Stills Two War Voice Slavery Debate Senate

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703

“The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.”

Lord Noble Debate Nobility

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“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.”

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Author:Matt Shea

“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.”

Should Ideas Government Values Capitalism Debate Socialism Discussion Proven Forums Synthesis

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“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.”

Firsts Ideas Government Answers Results Policy Speech Bases Debate Propaganda Amendments Hypothesis First Amendment Wisest

Author:Fred M. Vinson

“He who defines the terms, controls the debate.”

Term Israel Debate

Author:Mike Evans

“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.”

Thinking Should States Political Faith Church Religious Decision Influence Cost Debate Church And State Political Influence

Author:Adam Rickitt

“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.”

People States Today Winning Money Common Please Logic Congress Debate Common Sense Halls Versus Pledge Tennessee

Author:Zach Wamp

“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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Author:Diane Wood

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

Way Problem Literature Debate Our Time Hygiene

Author:Georg Brandes

“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.”

Should Heart Law Desire Belief Brain Opinion Fields Direct Sacred Terrorism Debate Sentiments Inquiry Pernicious Statutes Chimera

Author:William Borah

“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.”

Ideas Wisdom Possibility Profound Insight Debate Arise Dubious Counterarguments

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“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.”

Giving Ideas Done Skills Technique Debate Dexterity

Book:A Question of Attraction: A Novel

Source: A Question of Attraction: A Novel

“To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.”

Successful Debate Subtlety Nuance

Author:Mark McKinnon

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

World Ideals Critical Debate Rely Openness American Power

Author:Joseph Nye

“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.”

People Thinking Should Important Matter Order Situation Economy Economic Achieve Raised Debt Debate Agendas Ceilings Hostage American Economy Debt Ceiling

Author:Jay Carney

“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.”

Want Kind Running Lying President Challenges Talking What You Want Campaigns Debate Presidential Be You Running Away Keep Running Presidential Campaign

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“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.”

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Author:John Shimkus

“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.”

Ifs Years School Waiting Church Five Streets Baby Doctors Debate Magazines Five Years Hanging Out Genes Engineering Smarter Genetic Engineering

Author:Arthur Caplan

“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.”

Want Conversation Intellectual Debate Jersey Widows Orphan New Jersey Esoteric

Author:Chris Christie

“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.”

Has Beens Fighting Born Challenges Lines Republican Picks Capitalism Democratic Democrat Debate Socialism Free Market Thesis Antithesis Democratic Socialism Free Market Capitalism

Author:Dick Morris

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

Moving Greater Speed Debate Noise Sloth Deliberation

Book:Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader

Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader

“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?”

World Mother Given Pieces Happened Tears Debate

Author:Phil Robertson

“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.”

People Mean Use Spiritual Understanding Growth Church Deals Depth Debate Locals Primaries Preaching Congregation Local Church

Author:James Montgomery Boice

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

Years Levels Rage Debate

Author:Rich Lowry

“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.”

“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.”

World Jew Debate Documents Irrelevant Elders Protocol Forgery Zion

Author:Gilad Atzmon