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I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that. ↗


— Jon Favreau


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I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture. ↗


— Henry Fonda


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I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30 and want to look that way again. ↗


— Brigitte Nielsen


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The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue. ↗


— Tim Yeo


#climate #climate change #conservative #discussion #four

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. ↗


— Lord Acton


#discussion #faith #good #good faith #government

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject. ↗


— Charles Babbage


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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person. ↗


— Charles Babbage


#character #discussion #every #fairly #fitness

The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions. ↗


— Fredrik Bajer


#assemble #attach #congresses #different #different opinions

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter. ↗


— Fredrik Bajer


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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. ↗


— Lord Acton


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