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• I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."

  John Searle

  Block, Understanding, Want

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". John Searle, "Behavioral and Brain Sciences", Volume 3, No. 3, 1980.

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• It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it in an instinctive and empirical way... Thus any discussion of the nature of intellectual effort in any field is difficult, unless it presupposes an easy, routine familiarity with that field. In mathematics this limitation becomes very severe.

  John von Neumann

  Running, Effort, Understanding

  John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.618, World Scientific

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• The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Promise, World, Problem

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• There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

  Wes Borland

  Funny, Silence, May

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• When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Philosophy, Years, Listening

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• Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Politics, Individualism

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “African and European Addresses”, p.70, tredition

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• I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that conversation of whether or not it's important, because if someone asks me that... I don't want to have a conversation with them until they grow up.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Growing Up, Men, Goal

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• The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

  Charles Babbage

  Character, Office, May

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.11

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• Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Heart, Hackers, Intention

  "They call me a criminal" by Kevin Mitnick, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2000.

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• I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

  Harold H. Greene

  Law, Skills, Justice

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• If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

  Dick Spring

  Party, Worry, Trying

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• The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

  Chris Ware

  Race, Fruit, Aliens

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. May 2, 2001.

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• On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.

  Horace Mann

  Light, Faces, Causes

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.123

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• For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

  Thucydides

  Powerful, Justice, Pressure

  Thucydides (1881). “Thucydides Translated Into English”

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• The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Maintenance, Use

  "Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Sarah Leonard, www.dissentmagazine.org. Spring 2012.

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• Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Invoke

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• I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Believe, Needs

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• As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom; a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leader, Nimble, Shepherds

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• As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Rights, Long, Matter

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• The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.

  Gerry Adams

  Friday, Agreement, Matter

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.

  Warren Christopher

  Thinking, Russia, Talking

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• I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Regret, Assessment, United States

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

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• All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Way, Reviews

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Political, Found, Afghanistan

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror". Book by By Giovanna Borradori. Chapter 1, 2003.

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• In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

  Audre Lorde

  Men, Black, Faculty

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.48, Crossing Press

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