#bat

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. ↗

#encourage #information #job #press #public

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. ↗

#better understood #by-product #debate #information #precondition

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#debates #deeply #embedded #expose #need

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle. ↗

— Jude Law

#essence #eyes #fact #feel #feet

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike! ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#also #archery #climbing #combat #done

And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#bath #creek #made #motel #really

We have not won the battle against drug trafficking. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#battle #trafficking #won

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#candidates #debate #directly #exchange #facilitate

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. ↗