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World leaders and luminaries such as US president Ronald Reagan, British prime ministers Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, physicist Albert Einstein have been speakers at the Oxford Union debate.<\/p>\n<p>Students were asked to register and submit their questions online. 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