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#discourse

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #discourse




As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.


Jim Lehrer


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Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.


George Washington


#comprehensive #discourse #men #short #your

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!


William James


#anything #believes #cheap #discourse #faith

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.


George Saunders


#average guy #bad #cant #culture #discourse

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.


Dan Savage


#arms #choir #discourse #does #elevates

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


#before #complied #delivered #discourse #drowned

It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of his reason the shadows in which nature had enveloped him, rising above himself, soaring in his mind right up to the celestial regions, moving, like the sun, with giant strides through the vast extent of the universe, and, what is even greater and more difficult, returning to himself in order to study man there and learn of his nature, his obligations, and his end.


Jean Jacques Rousseau


#beauty

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.


John Locke


#cannot #current #discourse #greater #his

We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.


Leah Ward Sears


#acquaintances #again #another #begin #civil

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


#discourse #half #hard #know #mathematics






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