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• Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.

  William Benton Clulow

  Principles, Sometimes, Conversation

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.168

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• Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Writing, Phones

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Lunch, Remains, Bites

  Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.57, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Food, Cereal

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• Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

  Paul Lynde

  Comedy, Conversation, Constant

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• Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Sorry, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.177, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

  Glenn Close

  People, Society, Actresses

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

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• I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get ready for it.

  Judith Orloff

  Dream, Sweet, Communication

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• We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

  Dave Barry

  Objectivity, Literature, Littles

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• ..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they themselves, upon their own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid and satisfactory.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Atheism, Foundation

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.358

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• The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred it replaces old prejudices with new one. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expressions off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

  George H. W. Bush

  Expression, Land, Racism

  Remarks at the University of Michigan Commencement Ceremony in Ann Arbor, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 4, 1991.

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• In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Writing, Self, Important

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• The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception. A human being is there. I separate the topic of abortion from any specifically religious notions. It is a scientific problem. Not to allow the further development of a being which already has all the genetic code of a human being is not ethical. The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill someone who cannot defend himself.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Children, Rights

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• Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Distinguished, Treated

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.113, Delphi Classics

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• In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.

  Don Drysdale

  People, Brooklyn, Littles

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• Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Light, Race, Black Youth

  Michael Eric Dyson (2010). “Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.

  Eric Schmidt

  Technology, Google, Half

  "Q&A: Three minutes with Google's Eric Schmidt". Interview with Tom Spring, www.computerworld.com. January 31, 2002.

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• I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

  Dave Barry

  Respect, Funny Inspirational, Party

  "Is Findlay’s water safe?". "The Courier" Interview, thecourier.com. February 15, 2016.

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• Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion.

  Vera Nazarian

  Mean, People, Missing

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• The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.

  Tom Waits

  Impact, Tree, Musical

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

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• Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

  John Millington Synge

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.18, Northwestern University Press

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• I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

  William Stafford

  Rivers, Kind, Impulse

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• Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

  David Price

  Country, Justice For All, Hypocrisy

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• Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Church Service, Interesting, Challenges

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• It is leashed. Now drop the subject or I’ll tell Sin you’ve seen me naked. (Kat) I will never bring this topic up again. Oh wait. What topic? I have Alzheimer’s. I know nothing at all. (Kish)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Alzheimer's, Waiting, Naked

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.283, Macmillan

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