#debate

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

#carefully #cons #could #debated #draw

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#bare #completely #debate #divide #flesh

Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#beside #besides #conditions #countries #crazy

Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#anti-semitism #arises #challenge #conceivable #consciously

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

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

The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral. ↗

— David Letterman

#big #confusing #dead #debate #funeral

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#american people #care #debate #divisive #health

I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#constructive #debate #digging #i #into

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#american jobs #data #debate #globalization #jobs