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Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

Susan Cain

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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Hale White

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I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

Paul Wolfowitz

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In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

Gary Bauer

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By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

Scott Fujita

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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

Carl Hiaasen

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What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

Thomas Frank

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Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

Dan Lipinski

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The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.

Rick Atkinson

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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

Barbara Kruger

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There is a debate in Ukip as to how strong we should be on the immigration issue. I personally think we should own it.

Nigel Farage

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We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

Richard Dreyfuss

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So much of what we get on our news debate shows is really people spinning one way or the other, giving their talking points one way or the other.

Morgan Neville

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People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

Jim Lehrer

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You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology later - that was his famous line. I kind of feel like that's in my DNA.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

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I believe in a free market of ideas and not shying away from debate.

Kevin McCarthy

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The debate on climate change has been tainted by its excessive concern with individual and national interests, short-termism, and lack of solidarity in face of global threats.

Jens Martin Skibsted

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Debate is so much better than denial.

Julie Walters

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The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.

Meir Soloveichik

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Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

Howard Berman

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I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not a one-sided thing.

Angus Deaton

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Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

Gerhard Schroder

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In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'

Jeff Greenfield

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