Debated Quotes
53 quotes by 53 authors
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Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was…
— Terry Pratchett
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[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style…
— Susan Sontag
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I've always been infuriated by Bertie, I have to say. I never appreciated his style of politics. I thought it was very superficial, running around…
— Lucinda Creighton
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At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is…
— William J. Brennan
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In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run on aggregate demand…
— Paul Krugman
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In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect…
— Stephen Halbrook
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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he…
— R C Sproul
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Immigration is everyone’s business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a…
— Geoffrey Blainey
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While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we…
— Yvon Chouinard
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Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
— Samuel Johnson
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An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather…
— James Paul Gee
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We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to…
— Neko Case
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.
— Henry L. Stimson
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DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an…
— Terence McKenna
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In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same…
— Jim Sensenbrenner
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The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
— Chen-Ning Yang
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Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and…
— Carol Bellamy
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