#discourse

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. ↗

— Harvey Cox

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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

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Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#discourse #thought #men

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. ↗

— Joyce Appleby

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