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“Competitive debate builds confidence, improves academic achievement, and develops leadership skills. The Houston Urban Debate League is bringing competitive debate into more high schools across the city, and that is great news for our schools and for our community. With the HUDL leading the charge, Great Debaters will develop and thrive throughout Houston.”
Harvin Moore
“"Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness”
Rabindranath Tagore
“When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate.”
Addison Whithecomb
“In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.”
John Stuart Mill
“What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.”
Hillary Clinton
“Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.”
Herbert Clark Hoover
“Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.”
Baltasar Gracian
“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
“Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods /moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former /but no opinion.”
Hannah Arendt
“This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.”
Byron Dorgan
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