The Great Debaters - Quotes

 Melvin B. Tolson:
We'll be one of the first Negro colleges to ever debate a white college. If we beat them, we beat the best.
 

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Fargo - Quotes

 Jerry Lundegaard:
[answering the phone] Jerry Lundegaard.
Carl Showalter:
Alright, Jerry, you got the phone to yourself?
Jerry Lundegaard:
Well, yeah.
Carl Showalter:
You know who this is?
Jerry Lundegaard:
Well, yeah, I got an idea. How's that Ciera working out for ya?
Carl Showalter:
Circumstances have changed, Jerry.
Jerry Lundegaard:
Well, what do ya mean?
Carl Showalter:
Thing have changed, circumstances, Jerry, beyond the... uh, acts of god.
Jerry Lundegaard:
How's Jean?
Carl Showalter:
[puzzled] Who's Jean?
Jerry Lundegaard:
My wife! What the-?
Carl Showalter:
Oh, she's alright, but there's a few people in Brainerd who aren't so okay, I'll tell you that.
Jerry Lundegaard:
What the heck are ya talking about? Let's just finish this deal up here.
Carl Showalter:
Blood has been shed, Jerry.
Jerry Lundegaard:
What the heck do ya mean?
Carl Showalter:
Three people, in Brainerd.
Jerry Lundegaard:
Oh, jeez.
Carl Showalter:
That's right, we need more money.
Jerry Lundegaard:
What the heck are ya talking about? What do you fellas have yourself mixed up in?
Carl Showalter:
We need more money...
Jerry Lundegaard:
[interrupting] This was supposed to be a no rough stuff type deal!
Carl Showalter:
[angry] DON'T EVER INTERRUPT ME, JERRY, JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Jerry Lundegaard:
Well, I'm sorry, but I just- I don't...
Carl Showalter:
I'm not gonna debate you, Jerry! I'm not gonna debate! We now want the entire 80,000!
Jerry Lundegaard:
Oh, for chris'sake here!
 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend's child, or in order to have a debate with the faithful. (When I was to be wed, I chose a rabbi named Robert Goldburg, an Einsteinian and a Shakespearean and a Spinozist, who had married Arthur Miller to Marilyn Monroe and had a copy of Marilyn 

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Craig Ferguson - Quotes

 I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling. 

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Rocket Science - Quotes

 Hal Hefner:
You know, Ginny said I won't be her real partner for months. And until then, I'm, like... the mascot. The disfluent mascot. The disfluent mascot who's not getting a BJ.
Heston:
Like an aardvark.
Hal Hefner:
No, that was a joke, Heston... there isn't a debate mascot.
Heston:
I, for some reason, was convinced that it was an aardvark.
Hal Hefner:
No.
Heston:
C'est la vie.
 

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Still Standing - Quotes

 Bill:
So son, why didn't you join the football team?
Brian Miller:
Well, it was getting in the way of my debate team practices.
Bill:
You never told me you were on the debate team!
Brian Miller:
Yes, I did.
Bill:
No, you didn't.
Brian Miller:
Yes, I did
Bill:
Damn, you're good
 

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Donnie Darko - Quotes

 Dr. Lilian Thurman:
Do you feel alone right now?
Donnie:
Oh, I dunno. I mean I'd like to believe I'm not but I just... I've just never seen any proof so I... I just don't debate it anymore, you know? It's like I could spend my whole life debating it over and over again, weighing the pros and cons and in the end I still wouldn't have any proof so I just... I just don't debate it anymore. It's absurd.
Dr. Lilian Thurman:
The search for God is absurd?
Donnie:
It is if everyone dies alone.
 

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Freaks and Geeks - Quotes

 Daniel Desario:
Am I a loser?
Harris Trinsky:
You're not a loser 'cause you have sex, but if you weren't having sex, we could definitely debate the issue.
 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough 

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The Great Debaters - Quotes

 Samantha:
[after James protests his inability to debate with Samantha or Henry] James, you're the best researcher I've ever seen. We couldn't do this without you.
James Farmer Jr.:
[angrily] Oh, there's PLENTY you do without me!
 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 Edward genially enough did not disagree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted to press him harder so I veered close enough to the ad hominem to point out that his life 

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The American President - Quotes

 President Andrew Shepherd:
If Mary hadn't died, would we have won three years ago?
A.J.:
Would we have won?
President Andrew Shepherd:
If we had to go through a character debate three years ago, would we have won?
A.J.:
I don't know. But I would have liked that campaign. If my friend Andy Shepherd had shown up, I would have liked that campaign very much.
 

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Jesus Camp - Quotes

 Ted Haggard:
We've decided the Bible is the word of God. We don't have to have a General Assembly about what we believe. It's written in the Bible. Alright, so we don't have to debate what we think about homosexual activity. It's written in the Bible. [pointing and looking into the camera]
Ted Haggard:
I think I know what you did last night. [audience laughs]
Ted Haggard:
If you send me a thousand dollars, I won't tell your wife. [audience and Haggard laughs]
Ted Haggard:
If you use any of this, I'll sue you.
 

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Anus Magillicutty - Quotes

 Anus Magillicutty:
I thought you said you live behind the dumpster?
The White Trash Piece of Shit:
[sputters] This isn't debate class! I didn't go to fancy schools and learn a lot of math.
 

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Carl Sagan - Quotes

 Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. 

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Get on the Bus - Quotes

 George:
Let's go get something to eat, Rick, then I'll drive the bus for awhile.
Rick:
I need you to do me a favor, George.
George:
Rick, you can't drive the Spotted Owl the whole way, now.
Rick:
That's not it. If the base calls in, you tell them I got sick.
George:
Why?
Rick:
Because I'm not coming back.
George:
Shit, what the hell do you mean you're not coming back?
Rick:
I can't do it.
George:
Oh come on, stop bullshitting, you're just trying to go to Graceland.
Rick:
I'd be safer there.
George:
Meaning what, what do you think we're going to do, put you in a pot of boiling water and have you for supper?
Rick:
You already got the damn African drums in there.
George:
You know Rick, that's the epitome of cultural disrespect. I could come back at you with something anti-Semitic or I could whip your ass, which would you prefer, Rick?
Rick:
I'm sorry. Alright, George, here it is. Maybe I am a little bit prejudiced against blacks but no more than you're prejudiced against white people. You want me to stay on and prove how liberal and shit I am? I don't have to prove anything to anybody. I mean I think affirmative action has been fucked up. I think OJ was guilty, he's a cold blooded murderer who slaughtered two innocent human beings, okay. There it is.
George:
I'll bet you wish there were more white players in the NBA, too, huh? Well okay, let's just get it out in the open. I'll bet you'd like to call me a nigger or, what do you call it, a schvartze, or whatever the fuck it is. Well, I'm going to allow you to say it, go ahead.
Rick:
I never called anybody that in my life. All I'm saying is that if this bus is going to the Farrakhan march, I can't be a part of that.
George:
This is not just Farrakhan's march.
Rick:
I don't want to debate this thing. He called Judaism a gutter religion; he said Hitler was a great man. I wouldn't expect you to drive a bus to a Ku Klux Klan rally, so don't expect me to do this.
George:
So now you're comparing this to a Klan rally.
Rick:
Look George, either you're going to kick my ass, you're going to cover for me or I'm going to get fired. But no way am I getting my white ass back in that bus, so what's it going to be?
George:
Well, if you feel that way, then you shouldn't get your white ass back on that bus. I'll cover for you, Rick. See you in LA.
Rick:
Thanks, George.
 

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Medicine Man - Quotes

 Dr. Robert Campbell:
Jesus Christ, woman, must everything be a full-scale debate with you? Just do it!
 

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Head of State - Quotes

 Martin Geller:
Look, one thing at a time. The Teamsters haven't endorsed Lewis yet. Our numbers are creeping back up, but if you want a real shot at this thing, we gotta get Lewis to debate.
Mays Gilliam:
Well, he knows that. That's why he won't debate me. The guy's avoiding me like he owes me child support.
 

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Spider-Man 3 - Quotes

 Peter Parker:
Man, these guys are dumber than a sack of hammers. How do they expect to debate a politician if they didn't steal a teleprompter?
 

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Fargo - Quotes

 Carl Showalter:
I'm not gonna debate you, Jerry.
Jerry Lundegaard:
Okay.
Carl Showalter:
I'm not gonna sit here and debate.
 

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Anne Osterlund - Quotes

 Look, Aerin, preparation is only half the challenge of winning a debate. 

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Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth - Quotes

 Pinhead:
Just give me the box and I'll free you from the future.
Joey:
Free yourself from the past.
Pinhead:
[shouting] Don't debate with me, girl! Just come here and die while you still have the option of doing it quickly!
 

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The Great Debaters - Quotes

 Melvin B. Tolson:
We're holding tryouts for the debate team.
Henry Lowe:
You sure you want somebody like me?
Melvin B. Tolson:
No. That's why you're trying out.
 

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Selma, Lord, Selma - Quotes

 Jonathan Daniels:
Does God wants us to be divided, Father?
Father Whitaker:
Jonathan, that's a debate that's gone on for a long time.
Jonathan Daniels:
Well, I don't think it's a debate in God's eyes.
 

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C.S. Lewis - Quotes

 [M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily  

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Stephen Jay Gould - Quotes

 The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face. 

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Daniel C. Dennett - Quotes

 One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as just one more scientific hypothesis, to be evaluated by the standards of science in particular and rational thought in general, Dawkins and I are ignoring the very widespread claim by believers in God that their faith is quite beyond reason, not a matter to which such mundane methods of testing applies. It is not just unsympathetic, he claimed, but strictly unwarranted for me simply to assume that the scientific method continues to apply with full force in this domain of truth.



Very well, let's consider the objection. I doubt that the defender of religion will find it attractive, once we explore it carefully.



The philosopher Ronaldo de Souza once memorably described philosophical theology as  

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James Surowiecki - Quotes

 Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise. 

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Noam Chomsky - Quotes

 The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. 

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Michael Palin - Quotes

 I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so. 

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Bill Simmons - Quotes

 If you don't agree with me, I have two words for you: shut the fuck up. 

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Joseph Joubert - Quotes

 It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. 

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Robert A. Heinlein - Quotes

 If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. 

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