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Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line. -- Pope Shenouda III
Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life. -- Annie Besant
Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog. -- Harold Wilson
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin -- Philip Larkin
Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win. -- Victor J. Stenger
Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place. -- David Suzuki
Debating, doubting, or rejecting the basic scientific facts about climate change in the face of the overwhelming evidence and overwhelming scientific opinion will not change those facts. -- Bernie Sanders
Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia. -- Daniel H. Hill
Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems. -- John Yarmuth
A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action. -- Karl Radek
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. -- Thomas Carlyle
I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president. -- Paul D. Boyer
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. -- Joseph Joubert
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy. -- Joseph Stiglitz
We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating. -- Rick Wagoner
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society. -- Alice Paul
When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior. -- Monica Crowley
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child. -- Hans Rosling
Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it. -- Michael Porter
When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation. -- Judith Martin
There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming. -- Al Gore
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. -- George P. Shultz
When I came to Harvard, I was debating between math and science, and I guess I thought in the end I wanted something that could connect to the real world. I liked puzzle-solving and connections. -- Lisa Randall
And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Most Pakistani politics is conducted within a narrow spectrum. Politicians spend much time debating the best ways to fight India, or take Kashmir, or dominate Afghanistan, or punish the United States for its real and imagined sins. -- Stephen Kinzer
My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze. -- David Miliband
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. -- Ralph W. Sockman
Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do. -- Eriq La Salle
One thing I've done in my life is train year-round to compete at anything, anything. I've got an invitation now to maybe be on the karate team for the Barcelona Olympics. I'm debating whether I want to do that. I just love to compete, and I want to win. -- Herschel Walker
America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen. -- Peter Welch
I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. -- Dan Brown
I've never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell yes, I'm for debating anything! -- Stephen Hopkins
We learn not for life but for the debating-room. -- Seneca the Younger
This is an issue that women are not interested in debating. -- Rona Ambrose
I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating. -- Laura Schlessinger
Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology. -- Rod Paige
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle
There's nothing more fun than debating and defending your taste in music. -- Judd Apatow
It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids! -- Milton Berle
Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude. -- Bryant McGill
Understand that wisdom is higher than intellect and discretion is higher than debating. -- Nirmala Srivastava
There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades. -- Juan Williams
Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery. -- Andy Borowitz
She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change. -- Kiera Cass
We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true. -- Reince Priebus
The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery. -- Douglas Harding
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it -- Joseph Joubert
Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor. -- Craig Rosebraugh
It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos. -- Ben Thompson
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. -- Alan Valentine
I worry about Rick Perry. One, he's too conservative, Two, his debating skills. And three ... Oh crap, what was three? -- David Letterman
In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration. -- Doug Larson
I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember. -- George W. Bush
So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman. -- Jennifer Granholm
I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will. -- Shonda Rhimes
I spent four and a half hours debating Donald Trump in three debates, which I think should put to rest any questions about my stamina. -- Hillary Clinton
They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'. -- Margaret Thatcher
We should not be making near-term decisions with long-term consequences without robustly debating these questions and fully considering the substantial and unpredictable risks of these actions. -- Niki Tsongas
Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates. -- Derek Bok
I think that the candidates who are doing it [not debating] are doing a great disservice to the party. It`s a sign of an unhealthy institution. -- Chris Matthews
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization. -- Don Marquis
When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians, she said: "You got what to wear?". -- Richard A. Falk
What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time. -- Jane Yolen
Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to choose not to try. -- Carolyn Hax
The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water. -- Marilyn Ferguson
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion, compassion, intuition, and irrational thinking. -- Grey Owl
The bond market is debating with itself what the intent of the Fed is. I don't think the Fed has a multi-step process. They are taking it step by step. -- Paul McCulley
I have been following the attempt to initiate or revamp federal involvement in the health of Americans since it was a major topic for my high school debating team in 1947. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events. -- James Heckman
Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political philosophy and to persuade voters to accept it. -- Tom Wicker
If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition. -- Graham Hancock
Really, at a time when they're debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church. -- John Tesh
Really, at a time when theyre debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church. -- John Tesh
The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits -- Winston Churchill
If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
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
If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over. -- Isaac Newton
John Quincy Adams resolved to the discipline of rejecting argument for argument's sake would he sees that a fellow cabinet member is trying to draw him in to debating proposals the president will already reject. -- Paul C. Nagel

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