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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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✓Similar Perspectives

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

— Geraldine Ferraro

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

— Don Young

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

— Mos Def

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

— Margaret Thatcher

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.

— Jim Lehrer

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

The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.

— Jose Mujica

✗Opposing Perspectives

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

— Clifford Geertz