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I debated between law school and divinity. -- Cory Booker
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China. -- Chen Ning Yang
I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated. -- Walter Cronkite
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. -- Joseph Stiglitz
We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty. -- Henry L. Stimson
For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown. -- Denis Lavant
I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy. -- Sam Wyly
The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since. -- Robert Dallek
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. -- John McCain
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated. -- Mindy Kaling
What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines. -- James L. Buckley
Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses. -- Maurice Strong
I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise. -- Hayao Miyazaki
The Fed's policy choices can always be debated, but the quality and commitment of the Federal Reserve as a public institution is second to none, and I am proud to lead it. -- Ben Bernanke
The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons. -- Mike Royko
Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks. -- Mohsin Hamid
The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years. -- Norman Geisler
The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away. -- Bill Dedman
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword. -- Andrew Jackson
I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students. -- Mark Hamill
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing. -- Gore Vidal
It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it. -- John Sherman Cooper
Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public. -- David Herbert Donald
The only way to conduct an effective collaboration is to debate the things upon which you disagree. If one doesn't manage to bring the other around to his point of view, then whichever collaborator feels the most passionate about the thing being debated ought to get his way. -- Christopher Golden
Of course I had written a film about Elizabeth I, and I loved the Tudor period, and I think at the time Working Title and I had debated on whether to do Elizabeth I or Henry VIII. I'd always wanted to do Henry VIII. Like Elizabeth, I'd had this feeling that it had never properly been addressed. -- Michael Hirst
I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for the first time seeing issues being debated on TV that had never been talked about before. And that is the biggest promoter of democracy you could possibly have. -- Jehane Noujaim
Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history. -- Georgia Harkness
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China. -- Chen Ning Yang
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings. -- Denis Diderot
Talon glanced wistfully at his drink as he debated what should take priority. 'Coffee" Daimons" Coffee" Daimons" -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations. -- David L. Weimer
The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
My being gay is not a social issue; it's a fact. It's not something to be debated. It's a reality. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. -- Robert A. Heinlein
...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy. -- Johannes Kepler
Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas. -- Barton Gellman
In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims[. -- Samuel Alito
I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves. -- Jonathan Trigell
In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
I watched the Republican debate. At one point, the candidates said there are no classes in America, a point then hotly debated by all six rich white guys that were there. -- Craig Ferguson
The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising. -- Mark E. Hyman
Immigration is everyone's business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate. -- Geoffrey Blainey
Religion is good, as it controls the people that don't have the intelligence to make worthwhile decisions. However, it could be debated as to whether this makes up for the atrocities committed by these people. -- Ryan Hofmeister

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