#discourse

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

Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#arguing #argument #communication #debate #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

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#contending #discourses #instructed #needing #quickly