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• I've been thinking so much about how grateful I am to cover the court because the constraints of calm and civility are really palpable when you look across the street, and that, you know, I feel like the discourse has become so overheated that, you know, we talk about everything in the exact tone that seems to sort of preclude reason and to preclude the possibility of agreement.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Grateful, Thinking, Agreement

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not imply that one understood implications, background, or connections. Telegraphic discourse permitted no time for historical perspectives and gave no priority to the qualitative. To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing of lots of things, not knowing about them.

  Neil Postman

  Knowing, Perspective, Priorities

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.70, Penguin

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• What, after all, is the narrative of the American Dream? It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

  Naomi Wolf

  Dream, Expansion, United States

  "How the Mitt Romney video killed the American Dream" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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• O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Doubt, Woe

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (2008). “Romeo and Juliet: Parallel Texts of Quarto 1 (1597) and Quarto 2 (1599)”, p.83, Associated University Presse

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• The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Air, Law, Citizens

  Constitutional Government in the United States ch. 2 (1908)

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• Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Voice, Political, Analysis

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• The driver of the power of intelligent systems is the knowledge the systems have about their universe of discourse, not the sophistication of the reasoning process the systems employ.

  Edward Feigenbaum

  Intelligent, Views, World

  "Defining a Decade: Envisioning CSTB's Second 10 Years". Proceedings of CSTB's 10th Anniversary Symposium, www.nap.edu. May 16, 1996.

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• The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grace, Doctrine, Absent

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.73, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Hamlet And Ophelia, Fairness

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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• In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Book, Here I Am

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Withal I did infer your lineaments,
  Being the right idea of your father,
  Both in your form and nobleness of mind;
  Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
  Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,
  Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;
  Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose
  Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.152, Cambridge University Press

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• All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

  Samuel Johnson

  Understanding, Triumph, Acrimony

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.196

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• But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Angel, Hair

  William Shakespeare, Libby Appel, Michael Flachmann (1982). “Shakespeare's Lovers: A Text for Performance and Analysis”, p.77, SIU Press

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• I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.

  Annie Proulx

  Atmosphere, Suffering, Hustle

  "Close Range: Wyoming Stories". Book by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 1999.

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