#debating

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

— Joseph Stiglitz

#debating #engaged #extra #helped #i

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#argumentation #avoidance #challenge #challenger #contempt

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

— Paul D. Boyer

#debating #government #i #participated #president

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze. ↗

— David Miliband

#capitalism #childhood #dad #debating #football

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

#funny #love #funny

We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

#always #blow #debating #game #start

Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single. ↗

— Meg White

#even #first #gonna #last #minute

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming. ↗

— Al Gore

#arcane #because #changing #debating #dramatic

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

#believe #better #concerned #debating #far