#discussion

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

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I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously. ↗

— Juan Cole

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As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#democracy #discussion #fits #how #improvisation

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#discussions #goes #into #like #never

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #arbitrary #china #clearly #crush