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Quotes About Debate

The Apocalypse must be near, because a guy is arguing against grilling.
~ Rachel Caine
The question of chemical residues on the food we eat is a hotly debated issue. The existence of such residues is either played down by the industry as unimportant or is flatly denied. Simultaneously, there is a strong tendency to brand as fanatics or cultists all who are so perverse as to demand that their food be free of insect poisons. In all this cloud of controversy, what are the actual facts?
~ Rachel Carson
Do you hear the argument the other side makes?
~ Rachel Kadish
Self-identified intellectuals were among the most dangerous people on the planet.
~ Dean Koontz
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
~ Denis Diderot
No significant American group hates like the left does. If you differ with them — from global warming, to race relations, to same-sex marriage, to the extent of rape on college campuses — they will humiliate, defame, libel and try to economically crush you.
~ Dennis Prager
Don't raise your voice- improve your argument.
~ Desmond Tutu
a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact
~ Diana Gabaldon
Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact
~ Diana Gabaldon
a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so
~ Diana Gabaldon
Grey sat in his bedchamber, unshaven and attired in his nightshirt, banyan, and slippers, drinking tea and debating with himself whether the authoritative benefits conferred by wearing his uniform outweighed the possible consequences - both sartorial and social - of wearing it into the slumps of London to inspect a three-day-old corpse.
~ Diana Gabaldon
it does not escape me that one can wield Sword or Musket only upon one Enemy at a time, while Words may be employed upon any Number.
~ Diana Gabaldon
He rounded on me, indignant and astonished. "Are you contradicting me?" "Well, yes," I said, rather mildly. "You're wrong.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I think some people don't even know what they're talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions.
~ Brian Fallon
God doesn't believe in atheists.
~ Ray Comfort
What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
~ Larry Bird
Donald Trump would make a great president.
~ Roger Stone
I think Donald Trump is a racist.
~ Ed Schultz
We do not need $1 allowed for the president to enact amnesty.
~ Paul Gosar
If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
~ Wale
I don't want to engage in politics; it's too hot.
~ John Gokongwei
The essence to me of all good drama is argument.
~ Sydney Pollack
Everyone was searching for something, conducting lively arguments, getting excited, but behind it all one felt weariness, disillusion, emptiness.
~ Ilya Ehrenburg
He loved florid verbiage and jaw-jaw until he cuts himself on Occam's razor.
~ Unknown