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Read both sides. Try to Understand. Be Curious. Be Courteous. Be Convincing.
"Raise your words, not your voice. It is the rain that grows flowers not the thunder" - Rumi "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." -Joubert "For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate" -Margaret Heffernan "In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory or an unjust interest" - Penn
List of Debating Quotes
The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them
David Gemmell
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger.
Nelson Mandela
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