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• If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.

  Noam Chomsky

  Downtown, Agendas, Four

  "Who Runs America?". Interview with Adrian Zupp, chomsky.info. April 1-8, 1999.

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• Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it can be very difficult to speak your mind, but sometimes, I believe, we're all in danger and I think this discussion needs to be widened.

  George Michael

  Believe, Thinking, Speak Your Mind

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• The scientists Heartland works with demanded we host a ninth conference this year to foster a much-needed frank, honest, and open discussion of the current state of climate science and we just couldn't refuse. The public, the press, and the scientific community will all benefit from learning about the latest research and observational data that indicate climate science is anything but 'settled.

  Joseph L. Bast

  Years, Data, Community

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• Radical Islamic terrorism came into effect even more so than it has been in the past. People like what I say. People respect what I say. And we've opened up a very big discussion that needed to be opened up.

  Donald Trump

  Islamic, Past, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Humans who see something different than them want to hate it and tear it down. Britain had a government policy that allowed prejudice to destroy someone's life, and today there is still homophobia at home and elsewhere, like Russia or Greece. It's still a relevant discussion. While women have it better than the 1940s or '50s, sexism is still prevalent.

  Keira Knightley

  Hate, Home, Russia

  "TIFF 2014: Keira Knightley on sexism and spy games". Interview with Barry Hertz, www.macleans.ca. September 11, 2014.

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• You can say, "Well, I have a question," and someone will say, "Oh, so you hate America." And it has nothing to do with the discussion at all.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, America, Wells

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention.

  Megan Alexander

  Conventions, Conferences, Draining

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.

  Natalie Maines

  Flower, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don't want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America. They don't want to talk about race. The discussion for them is based on class struggle, rich against poor, but doesn't offer the possibility of a dialogue about racial questions.

  Bocafloja

  Latin, Struggle, Race

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't true. So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.

  Bocafloja

  Latin, Race, White

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• A strong-willed child - a strong-willed child, more than anyone else, needs to learn to use emotion and discussion to resolve issues. That's the last child in the whole world you want to hit.

  Sean Hannity

  Strong, Children, Issues

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I've had lots of discussions with my Muslim brothers and sisters who have said to me, "Christianity is a white man's religion" But I'm like, "how is that possible when Christianity went into Africa before it ever went into central Europe?" Even the first people to become a Christian nation were not Romans, they weren't the Byzantines either, they weren't the Greeks... the first people to claim a Christian empire were the Armenians.

  Immortal Technique

  Christian, Brother, Men

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat."

  Kam Williams

  Trying, Ambitious, Passionate

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• All of the guys love to take serious topics and go for it; we're not writing a whole lot of love songs. With 'Sacrificed Sons,' we had some sensitivity there about how we'd present it. I remember there was a lot of discussion about the kind of words that would be used and how direct we wanted to be.

  Jordan Rudess

  Song, Writing, Guy

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• One of the reasons some of the advocates of ever larger government and more government intrusiveness get nervous about discussions of the actual cost of government is that they fear if the people had a discussion about what government costs, the true cost of taxes, that they might not want as much government as they are presently getting.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, People, Cost

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• Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

  Ben Shapiro

  Government, Long, Care

  "SHAPIRO: Why Socialism Is on the Rise". www.truthrevolt.org. January 8, 2014.

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• Call me a flaming radical burning for attention, but my real intention is to spark a discussion of how we can peacefully transform our world. America, I offer myself to you as an alarm against Armageddon and a torch for liberty.

  Kathy Change

  Real, Our World, America

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• I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

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• My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.

  M.I.A.

  Progress, Debate, Incomplete

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

  Richard Flanagan

  Book, Purpose, Prize

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.

  Cecily McMillan

  Islands, Wings, Jail

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it means to be a writer in the world; professors who are brutally honest and encouraging at the same time (this is a tough one).

  Mary J. Miller

  Mean, Years, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I suggested that countries with tighter finances think about such a [fuel] tax. We don't have the time at the moment for months of discussion.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Thinking, Fuel

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The best way for parents to go about acquiring a mind-set of self-reflective parenting will be different for different individuals. Some people will find that they are already very close to being the parent they are striving to be. Other people will find reading books or blog articles to be very helpful and some other people might benefit most by engaging in discussions on the internet.

  Timothy Carey

  Book, Reading, Self

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• [Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often.

  Rachael Taylor

  Should Have, Abuse, Topics

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