Discussion Quotes - Page 6

• A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

  George Soros

  Political, Democracy, Essentials

  "Why We Must Not Reelect President Bush". www.project-syndicate.org. October 17, 2004.

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• From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

  Angela Merkel

  Party, Issues, Important

  Interview With Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessing great means and influence and yet who employs those faculties for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion-I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mean, Men, Grandfather

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• Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

  James Hansen

  Giving, Growth, Made

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• I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Wall, Color, Directors

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• Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.

  Stephen Hawking

  If There Is A God, Design, Mind

  A Brief History of Time ch. 11 (1988)

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• Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

  George Crumb

  Spiritual, Interesting, Levels

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• If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

  Jim Allchin

  Smile, Needs, Waste

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• For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Strong, Issues, Wikipedia

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• No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Motivational, Real, Army

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• Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

  Dwight Macdonald

  Mean, Able, Conversation

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• No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

  Lewis Carroll

  Two, Use, Conversation

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their views as they try to convince others to change. At best this may produce agreement or compromise, but it does not give rise to anything creative.

  David

  Keys, Views, Agreement

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• The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

  Jerome Groopman

  Cutting, Doctors, Average

  Jerome Groopman (2008). “How Doctors Think”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

  Paul Wellstone

  Teacher, Teaching, Commitment

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• As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty is that the very same elites who enjoy this immunity have created the world's largest, and the Western world's most oppressive and merciless, penal state for ordinary citizens.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Ordinary, Citizens, Development

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• We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

  Neville Chamberlain

  War, Mean, Trying

  1938 Speech in the House of Commons, 6 Oct.

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• The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

  Elihu Root

  Justice, Rehabilitation, Diplomatic

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Worry, Principles

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• The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Drama, Intellectual

  Robertson Davies (1961). “The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

  William P. Leahy

  Issues, Catholic, University

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• This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

  Christopher Dawson

  Civilization, Political, Levels

  Christopher Dawson (2010). “The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.95, CUA Press

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• I'm quite optimistic when it comes to the capacity of our people to have an honest discussion about what's really going on. What do you think John McCain's candidacy was about? And the early days of Bill Bradley's candidacy? People are hungry for a genuine, no-spin set of ideas and truths. They want their leaders to tell it like it is. There is a great demand for this. Politicians continually underestimate the ability of the American public to understand what's happening to them and what the real choices are.

  Robert Reich

  Real, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants. We want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position. And I think it's important to talk about it.... It's brave of those women to come forward and make a point about it. Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?"

  Felicity Jones

  Men, Thinking, Brave

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We desperately need in this country a discussion of American policy toward Russia. We can't keep saying an untruth, that this new Cold War is solely the fault of Putin. We need to rethink our policy toward Russia.

  Stephen F. Cohen

  Country, War, Cold

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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