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• Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.

  Beatrice Warde

  People, Design, Personality

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• Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Past, Architecture, Moments

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• Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred - other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one form of terrorism (violence in the Muslim world) is done by, rather than to, the west?

  Glenn Greenwald

  Views, Law, Political

  "France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West’s “Free Speech” Celebration". theintercept.com. January 14, 2015.

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• It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

  David Whyte

  Average, Narrative, Truthful

  "The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.

  Alan Keyes

  Organization, Leader, Movement

  Alan Keyes' Speech at Israel's Independence Day Festival Alan Keyes' Speech at Israel's Independence Day Festival in Los Angeles, California, www.keyesarchives.com. April 21, 2002.

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• I think we should be very clear on this. You know, this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It was the idea that people could talk, reason, have dialogue, discuss the issues. It wasn't founded on the idea that someone would get struck by a divine inspiration and know everything right from wrong. I mean, people who founded this country had religion, they had strong beliefs, but they believed in reason, in dialogue, in civil discourse. We can't lose that in this country. We've got to get it back.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, Strong, Inspiration

  "Real Time with Bill Maher", September 5, 2003.

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• What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Writing, Vocabulary, Knowing

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• But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books and print them out ourselves, and give them to specific people we felt comfortable giving them to–like gifts? Isn’t publishing sort of a social contract?

  Jonathan Evison

  Book, Writing, People

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• A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Our World, Goal, Atheism

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• Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.

  Richard Whately

  Book, Passion, Imagination

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• You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.

  Colin Farrell

  Distance, Character, Thinking

  "Colin Farrell Talks DEAD MAN DOWN, Working with Noomi Rapace, SAVING MR. BANKS, WINTER’S TALE, EPIC, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 6, 2013.

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• It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Detectives, Dangerous

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• Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

  Plato

  Learning, Thinking, Mind

  Plato (2013). “Plato's Theory of Knowledge: The Theaetetus and the Sophist”, p.318, Courier Corporation

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• The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments are made to secure the political base and frighten the opposition rather than to illuminate issues. In political discourse, information is to be 'spun' to reinforce pre-existing beliefs, and to discourage opposition.

  Richard Lindzen

  Issues, Political, Littles

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• During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

  Kate Millett

  Depression, Voice, Anecdotes

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.283, University of Illinois Press

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• Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Self, Risk, Platitudes

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• Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Rhetoric, Preserves

  Samuel R. Delany (2014). “The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—“Angouleme””, p.150, Wesleyan University Press

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• False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

  Winston Smith

  Attribution, Bane

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• I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

  Cornel West

  Philosophy, Understanding, Way

  Source: genius.com

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• Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

  Blaise Pascal

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.

  Hannah Arendt

  Heart, Essence, Political

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• Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Past, Law, Community

  "No Country for 'Black Teens'" by Benjamin Jealous, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2013.

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• Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Artist, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2012). “The Historic Unfulfilled Promise”, p.65, City Lights Publishers

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• To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

  Paulo Freire

  Lying, People, Silence

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.91, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression

  Michel Foucault

  Running, Negative, Needs

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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