#discourse

Change of weather is the discourse of fools. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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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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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

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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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

— Saint Francis de Sales

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