#debating

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action. ↗

— Karl Radek

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I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

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Take, for example, the people who think Elvis is still alive… What’s wrong with this claim? Why is this claim not vitiating our academic departments and corporations? I’ll tell you why, and it’s very simple. We have not passed laws against believing Elvis is still alive. It’s just whenever somebody seriously represents his belief that Elvis is still alive – in a conversation, on a first date, at a lecture, at a job interview – he immediately pays a price. He pays a price in ill-concealed laughter. ↗

— Sam Harris

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Realizing that love is a fundamental principle of life doesn’t guarantee a happy relationship, but at least you can make captain of the debate team. ↗

— Bauvard

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The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising. ↗

— Mark E. Hyman

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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society. ↗

— Alice Paul

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Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line. ↗

— Pope Shenouda III

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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

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