Deng Xiaoping
Politician
"Do not debate! is one of my inventions."
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Debate
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Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."
Diana DeGette
Politician
"Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude."
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"Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?"
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"Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it."
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"The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow."
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"In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny."
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"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
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"Donald Trump said prior to the debate that he wants to be very civil. He said that instead of referring to all Hispanics as criminals, he'll call them criminal Americans."
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"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper."
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"Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree."
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"Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now"
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"I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country."
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"Whoever sets the agenda controls the outcome of the debate"
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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."
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"At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate."
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"Debate is the death of conversation."
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"In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to join the debate. But by the time my turn came, there was nothing left to say. I couldn't keep pace, so I looked to do my own things."
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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."
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"There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles."
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"There's always merit to having a debate."
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"Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?"
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"Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive."
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