Discussing Quotes

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we can be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs, but deep within, behind the scenes at a profounder level we may also be in prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Song, Prayer, Thinking

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• We learn...
  10% of what we read
  20% of what we hear
  30% of what we see
  50% of what we both hear and see
  70% of what is discussed
  80% of what we experience personally
  95% of what we teach to someone else

  William Glasser

  Inspirational, Education, Reading

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• I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

  Elena Kagan

  Wisdom, Truth, School

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010

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• Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication, Inc. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 75”, p.93, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Men, Average, Order

  "Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900". Book by Charles Stewart, p. 33, 1901.

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• If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.

  Bob Paisley

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, He Man, Conversation

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.735, Penguin

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• Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Indulge In, People, Vices

  Source: mrbellersneighborhood.com

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• Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband.

  Anthony Trollope

  Husband, Views, Opposites

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.217

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• We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

  J. L. Austin

  Truth Is, Obsessed, Minimum

  "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 130), 1979.

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• When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

  John von Neumann

  May, Language, Nervous

  "John Von Neumann, 1903-1957". Book edited by John C. Oxtoby, Billy J. Pettis and G. B. Price, 1958.

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• I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Everyday, Toes, Topics

  "He's bringing home the bacon, from clubs to Super Bowl ads". "The Plain Dealer" Newspaper, February 9, 2007.

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• My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Brother, Husband, Plot Lines

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• Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all.

  Ricky Gervais

  Never Fear, Subjects

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Angel, Numbers, House

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.

  Morgan Freeman

  Race, Subjects, Seems

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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• I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

  William Mapother

  Possibility, Theory, English Major

  "Going on From Lost, Actor William Mapother Heads to Another Earth". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Every other civilized country has determined when life begins and it's something that eludes us. We've got things that have to be done! "We didn't fix that bridge because you are all down at the meeting house discussing abortion again."

  Lewis Black

  Country, Bridges, Elude Us

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Stars, Father, Unique

  Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Axis”, p.235, Macmillan

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• Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.

  Jim Butcher

  Divergent, Viewpoints, Way

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.181, Penguin

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• Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace, and I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Believe, President

  "Clinton, Gates, Schumer, and Kyl". "This Week", www.realclearpolitics.com. August 2, 2007.

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• My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

  Margaret Cho

  Peace, Attitude, War

  Margaret Cho (2006). “I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Intelligent, Thinking, Mind

  "'Something that's not yourself.' — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Color, Long

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.53, Vintage

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