#debate

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#philosophy #science #science

Look, Aerin, preparation is only half the challenge of winning a debate.” “And the other half?” He had her now. “You have to choose the right side.” “Your side, you mean.” She bristled. “No, the losing side.” “What?” “Always choose the weaker side.” “Why would I do that?” Doubt edged her voice, but now she was sitting erect, her feet flat on the floor. “Because then you have further to go to prove your case.” He eased the feet of his chair down. “In a debate, there are two sides. If both make a good argument, then the less popular side wins because that side had further to go to prove its point. Simple logistics.” “If you don’t care which side wins.” She frowned. “It’s a debate. It doesn’t matter which side wins.” “You mean it doesn’t matter to you.” The tone in her voice unsettled him. Or maybe it was the fact that that her criticism disturbed him at all. “It’s a class,” he said. “The point is to flesh out the different sides of an argument.” “And you don’t care if the truth gets lost in the shuffle. Don’t you believe in anything?! ↗

— Anne Osterlund

#belief #debate #debating #challenge

I once watched several criminals engage in an organized argument, while an audience of supporters cheered them on, but I was so disgusted that I had to turn off the political debate. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#cheer #criminals #debate #disgust #fans

You can suceed with anything you put your heart into ↗

— Dylan Keenan

#inspirational #inspirational

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security. ↗

— Joe Biden

#accounts #cut #debate #how #legitimacy

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#bipartisan #debate #find #going #i

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#architecture #be the first #believe #convinced #debate

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. ↗

— Edward Bond

#done #drama #enabled #goodness #greek

There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four. ↗

— Chester Brown

#bit #consensus #debate #did #doing

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#cannot #debate #feel #human #human life