#discourse

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. ↗

— Izaak Walton

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With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers. ↗

— James Wolcott

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Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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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

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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

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I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

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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

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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

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

— John Locke

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