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• Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

  George C. Marshall

  Years, Effort, World

  George C. Marshall's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1953.

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• Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House with a lot of unnecessary business. The absence of disapproval may be accepted as sanction, and publicity and opportunity for discussion and criticism are the really material and valuable elements which henceforth will be introduced.

  Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

  Opportunity, House, Criticism

  Statement, April 1, 1924.

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• Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Stars, Hands

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 16,

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• The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for what he saw as the tedious process of achieving consensus through debate and discussion and tried to justify his solitary exercise of power by insisting it was what Iran needed to catch up with lost time. He believed he was more patriotic than anyone else and needed no advice on how best to promote and protect the highest interests of the nation.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Art, Patriotic, Exercise

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• The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Opportunity, Order, Rights

  "De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353, 365". Judicial opinion, 1937.

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• We can't accommodate terrorism. When someone uses the slaughter of innocent people to advance a so-called political cause, at that point the political cause becomes immoral and unjust and they should be eliminated from any serious discussion, any serious debate.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Political, Use

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• No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Opportunity, Evil, Justice

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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• The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.

  Stanley Forman Reed

  Mean, Rely Upon, Justice

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• The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age".

  Benjamin Graham

  Age, Investing, Assets

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan

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• A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.

  Philip Sidney

  Cutting, Zealous, Causes

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.71

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• There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil. The other consists in the discussion of continuity, and of the indivisibles which appear to be the elements thereof, and where the consideration of the infinite must enter in.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Two, Evil, Labyrinth

  "Théodicée". Preface to the book by Gottfried Leibniz, 1710.

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• He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

  Richard Whately

  Argument, Conviction, Qualified

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.41

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• They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Home, Talking, Used

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• Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Sex, Complicated, Existence

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• A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

  Moses Finley

  Political, Risk, Technique

  "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 4, Socrates and After, p. 140, 1985.

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• How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Party, Opinion

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.165

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• As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action.

  Ann Scott

  Association, Steps, Action

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• So, I installed a CCTV system to tape what's going on inside my mind.
  
  Thousands of hours of drama, confusion, discussion, huge special effects and futuristic scenarios.
  Also a lot of chatter, drama and suspense.
  
  Is like to go to the movies for free, every day.
  
  The CCTV technology used is the SSM-X45. Whose initials stand for:
  Sit down, Shut up and Meditate
  (X45 is just to sound more hi-tech)

  Marcelo Goianira

  Movie, Drama, Technology

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• There is a very real and critical danger that unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic matters will seriously damage the ability of this government to conduct signals intelligence and the ability of this government to carry out its mission of protecting national security information from hostile exploitation.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Real, Government, Information

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• Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to - no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Religion, Balance, Wheels

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.

  William Warburton

  Enemy, Principles, Arguing

  William Warburton (1837). “The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated”, p.684

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• My profession brought me in contact with various minds. Earnest, serious discussion on the condition of woman enlivened my business room; failures of banks, no dividends from railroads, defalcations of all kinds, public and private, widows and orphans and unmarried women beggared by the dishonesty, or the mismanagement of men, were fruitful sources of conversation; confidence in man as a protector was evidently losing ground, and women were beginning to see that they must protect themselves.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Business, Men, Widows And Orphans

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• The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly and popular arenas. Anxiety over whether or not the family as a basic social institution is dying has diminished. In its stead has emerged a fairly broad consensus around the position that the family is "here to stay," but that it certainly is changing.

  Sheila Kamerman

  Change, Writing, Anxiety

  Sheila B. Kamerman (1980). “Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life”, Free Pr

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• It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fate, Errors, Talking

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.217, Pan Macmillan

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• A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Challenges, Brilliant, Clarity

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