Discussion Quotes - Page 4

• I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Travel, Thinking, Order

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• It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the most grotesque and dangerous superstition ... regarding government, we would still be groaning under the bonds of feudal government ... regarding morals, we would still be having to learn what is virtue and what is vice. To forbid all these discussions, the only ones worthy of occupying a good mind, is to perpetuate the reign of ignorance and barbarism.

  Denis Diderot

  Ignorance, Government, People

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• In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more interesting discussion. If history is any guide, it's never a good idea to assume that a scientific problem is cornered.

  David Eagleman

  Ideas, Views, Interesting

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.178, Canongate Books

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• Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

  Clement Attlee

  Freedom, Mean, Democracies Have

  Speech at Oxford, 14 June 1957, in The Times 15 June 1957

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• One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Demand, Serious

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. November 29, 2006.

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• Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

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• There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

  Lord Acton

  Ignorance, Simple, Two

  "Lord Acton and his Circle". Book by Abbot Francis Aidan Gasquet, 1906.

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• Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

  Franklin Pierce

  Patriotic, Presidential, Political

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• All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

  John Stuart Mill

  Silence, Assumption, Absolute Certainty

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Adoption, Democracy

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• Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

  Honore de Balzac

  Power, Political, Principles

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• I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

  Warren Christopher

  Taken, Thinking, Giants

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• I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.

  Kent Conrad

  Support, Leader, World

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• 'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

  Marilyn French

  Hate, Feminist, Feminism

  The Women's Room ch. 1 (1977)

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• Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Men, Discovery

  Novum Organum LXXIII

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• Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.

  Norm Coleman

  Change, Retirement, Ifs And

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• Im always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the Presidents plan have not been invited to the discussion.

  Mel Watt

  President, North Carolina, Citizens

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• It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.

  Elton Gallegly

  Government, Mexican, Immigration

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• The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Growth, Important, Engagement

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• The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.

  Jim Hightower

  People, Political, Together

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• Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

  Rod Steiger

  Reflection, People, Injustice

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• My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

  George Stigler

  Faith, Directors, Fierce

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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• I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

  Juan Cole

  Taken, Thinking, Wings

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• I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Thorough Understanding, Order, House

  Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.201, Routledge

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