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• Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

  Joseph Joubert

  Blessing, Victory, Progress

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• To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.

  Clay Shirky

  Wish, Groups, Tools

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• What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I like the fact that Eminem is brash and angry and politically incorrect. At least he has an opinion. He's stirring things up. He's provoking a discussion. He's making people's blood boil. He's reflecting what's going on in society right now. That is what art is supposed to do.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Blood, People

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• [It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Heart, Doe

  Martin Luther (2018). “The Bondage of the Will”, p.20, Ambassador International

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• In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the facets of a subject. All this is invariably suppressed at the very beginning, so no ray of light should fall on the naked body of truth. And then all this is piled up in one formless heap covering many years, where it languishes for whole decades, until all interest and all means of sorting out the rusty blocks from all this trash are lost.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Block, Fall

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• Interestingly it's when you come to the comedy, that's where a lot of the discussion is. It's like ten people sitting around talking about what is funny. "Is that funny? Is that funnier than that? Is this slightly funnier than this?" I guess that's what it's like when you're making a comedy movie as well, you just have to sit around talking seriously about the nature of comedy.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Talking, People, Sitting

  Source: collider.com

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• In high school, my friend and I discovered that your cable-access station had to let you do whatever you wanted - it was like the Wild West. We made a couple weird things, like a tribute to the Zucker brothers, where we had a panel discussion about the Naked Gun movies. We wrote a script and made jokes that I'm sure were terrible and showed clips of The Naked Gun without permission.

  Michael Schur

  Brother, Couple, School

  "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

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• What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.

  Kenneth I. Chenault

  People, Easier, Clear

  "Check it out". abcnews.go.com. October 1, 2007.

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• Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Art, Race, People

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• Regular reading of and talking about the Book of Mormon invite the power to resist temptation and to produce feelings of love within our families. And discussions about the doctrines and principles in the Book of Mormon provide opportunities for parents to observe their children, to listen to them, to learn from them, and to teach them.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

  Edward de Bono

  Feelings, Logic, Disguise

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• Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

  W. H. Auden

  Believe, Fields, Debate

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("The Protestant Mystics"), (p. 52), 1973.

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• We as Bible-believing evangelical Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman's discussion. It is a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Spiritual, Believe

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• Of course, I didn't become an architect, but later on in Iran, I had a lot of contact and discussions with architects because Iran was developing, and I felt we shouldn't destroy the past and copy completely the West, which is the problem in developing countries.

  Farah Diba

  Country, Past, Iran

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.

  Zainab Salbi

  War, Believe, Impact

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also demotivated by one-way discussions, haphazard participation and arbitrary decisions. Structure every meeting at the start and summarize them at the end.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Decision, Arbitrary

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light.

  M. Scott Peck

  Light, Heat, Destructive

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• Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

  Agnes Repplier

  Rough Edges, Giving, Fusion

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• The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

  Noam Chomsky

  Space, People, Community

  "Talking With Chomsky". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. April 30, 2012.

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• I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Example, Missionary, Carrying On

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.283, Jaico Publishing House

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• I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.

  Patty Murray

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  "Murray: I will chair Senate Budget" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. November 15, 2012.

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• The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Space, Understanding

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• If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.

  Mike Godwin

  Nazi, Thread, Ifs

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• I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.

  Liev Schreiber

  Feel Better, Creative, The End Of The Day

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• Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

  Jason Calacanis

  Meaningful, Long, People

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