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• Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

  Loren Cunningham

  Forgiveness, Missionary, Doe

  "The God They Never Knew: The Tragedy of Religion Without Relationship". Book by George Otis, Jr., 1978.

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• The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

  Ron Ziegler

  Coverage

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• My memory is not even what most peoples is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

  Warren Zevon

  Memories

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• Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

  Edward Tufte

  Years, Making Changes

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• DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Errors, Method

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.57, University of Georgia Press

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• 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

  Teaching, Government, Political

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Thinking, Scripture

  "Pale Blue Dot". Book by Carl Sagan (p. 43), 1994.

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• Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

  Dirk Benedict

  Office, Doe, Guarantees

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• There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

  Gerrit Smith

  Mean, Men, Class

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• There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

  Iris Chang

  Country, Boston, Class

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• Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

  Alan Rudolph

  Language, Film, Boring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

  George Stigler

  Science, Small Numbers, Forever

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• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  Walter Pater

  Beauty, Art, Excellence

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

  Donald Sutherland

  Hate, People, Growth

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• All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

  James Jeans

  Science, Barren, Standards

  James Hopwood Jeans (1944). “The Mysterious Universe”, p.114, CUP Archive

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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

  Women, Rights, Tests

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

  Emma Bonino

  Firsts, Steps, Constitution

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• 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

  Self, Talking, Ideas

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• Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.

  Angela Merkel

  Two, Issues, People

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  Ramakrishna

  Practice, Brain, Desire

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

  Mike Royko

  Cities, Criminals, Rehabilitation

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.313, Agate Digital

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• I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

  Carl Sandburg

  Taken, Class, Textbooks

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• It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Art, Science, Thinking

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• Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

  Herman Kahn

  Missing You, Moral, Policy

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.24, Lexington Books

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• Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, War, Hard Work

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