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discourse Quotes and Quotations
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Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. Joyce Appleby | top
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people. Harold Bloom | top
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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. Harvey Cox | top
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We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. Paul Farmer | top
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The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained. Martin Frost | top
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Change of weather is the discourse of fools. Thomas Fuller | top
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech. Ed Gillespie | top
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I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago. Asa Gray | top
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I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody. Jim Lehrer | top
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. John Locke | top
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. John Locke | top
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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. Jean-Francois Lyotard | top
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Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. Bryant H. McGill | top
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It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer. James Newman | top
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Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. Kenneth L. Pike | top
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I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor. John Poindexter | top
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Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship. David E. Price | top
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The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. Salvatore Quasimodo | top
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick. Saint Francis de Sales | top
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Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago. George Soros | top
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With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. John Strachan | top
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But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place. Lawrence Summers | top
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. Izaak Walton | top
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Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. George Washington | top
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Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. Rowan D. Williams | top