#discourse

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse. ↗

— George Combe

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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. ↗

— Helen Keller

#awkwardness #barrier #book #discourses #disenfranchised

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil. ↗

— George Whitefield

#darts #devil #discourse #feeling #fiery

The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained. ↗

— Martin Frost

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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

#constrained #discourse #during #government #how

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse. ↗

— Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

#beauty #discourse #the-beautiful #beauty

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discourse #interpersonal-communication #love #philosophy #wisdom

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will make a man that will live longer than he. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#god #language #writing #death

Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them. ↗

— Rousseau Jean-Jacques

#freedom #liberty #weak #food