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• Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Ignorance, Racism

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

  Lance Morrow

  Animal, Rights, Rooms

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• Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Thinking, Order, Speech

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• I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

  Rafael Nadal

  Winning, Order, Long

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• If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

  Leon Trotsky

  Mistake, Planning, More Time

  Leon Trotsky (2012). “My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography”, p.437, Courier Corporation

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• But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Artist, Order, Imagination

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• Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

  Richard Meier

  Thinking, People, Architecture

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• You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Needs, Kind, Language

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• As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

  Stanley Crouch

  Reading, Mean, Democracy

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• I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

  Michael Servetus

  Progressive, Eternity, Incidents

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• A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

  Leo Szilard

  Scientist, Aim, Colleagues

  Leo Szilard (1961). “The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories”, p.54, Stanford University Press

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• Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Teacher, Mean, Cocky

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.161, Vintage

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• If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

  Jim Wallis

  War, Iraq, President

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• If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

  Wendell Phillips

  Cracks, Ifs, Universe

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• I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

  Neil LaBute

  Lying, Ideas, Deceit

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• And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Party, Engagement, Alps

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• We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

  Abraham Flexner

  Science, Self, Play

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• If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Agreement, Giving, Decision

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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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• The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.

  Tim Yeo

  Change, Years, Issues

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• If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Able, Principles

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

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• An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, Fall, Gentleman

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.102, Penguin

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• Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

  Lord Acton

  Reality, Justice, Political

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

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• I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Freedom, Real

  Alexis De Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy In America -- Vol. 1”, p.337

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• Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Memories, Intelligent, Rely Upon

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