#debates

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. ↗

— E. B. White

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The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. ↗

— David Antin

#debates #entertainer #entertainment #greece #paradoxical

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates. ↗

— Juan Cole

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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. ↗

— Heinz R. Pagels

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Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#century #certainly #creator #debates #emphasis

Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

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Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#debates #even #health #mental #mental health

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views. ↗

— Vince Cable

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The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. ↗

— Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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