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• A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you it is a real possibility. Just imagine it. We have already begun discussion of the last two substantive points: victims and the end of the conflict.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Dream, Real, Years

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• I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy!

  Frans de Waal

  Caring, Empathy, Intellectual

  Frans de Waal (2006). “Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are”, p.41, Penguin

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• The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Unique, Icons, Issues

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• While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs discussions about meat by constructing the discourse in such a way that these issues need never be addressed. Language distances us from the reality of meat eating, thus reinforcing the symbolic meaning of meat eating, a symbolic meaning that is intrinsically patriarchal and male-oriented. Meat becomes a symbol for what is not seen but is always there--patriarchal control of animals and of language.

  Carol J. Adams

  Distance, Reality, Animal

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• What may begin as a temporary method to circumvent reasoned discussion and debate for the sake of a prized political goal may very well end up permanently undermining the trust required for its existence.

  Jason Stanley

  Goal, Political, Sake

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• In most societies birth has been an experience in whichwomen draw together to help each other and reinforce bonds in the community. Now that eradication of pain with effective anesthesia is often the only issue in any discussion of birththe sacramental and social elements which used to be central to women's experience of birthseem, for an increasing proportion of women, to be completely irrelevant.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Pain, Issues, Community

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• Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Men, Average, Order

  "Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900". Book by Charles Stewart, p. 33, 1901.

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• It is extremely important that individuals in the state of California do not own assault weapons. I mean that is just so crystal clear, there is no debate, no discussion.

  Leland Yee

  Mean, Assault Weapons, California

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• But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

  Eddie Huang

  Writing, Cooking, Identity

  "Q & A With Eddie Huang + Watch Episode 2 and 3 of Fresh Off The Boat L.A. Installment". Interview with Besha Rodell, www.laweekly.com. December 18, 2012.

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• The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition, falsity, or misinformation. And there is no better system for determining the truth than free speech: Testing the validity of an idea in the waters of public discussion and debate.

  Dave Rodgers

  Truth, Ideas, Water

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• Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.

  Mikko Hypponen

  Motivation, Inspiration, Privacy

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• What's unique about [4chan] is that it's anonymous, and it has no memory. There's no archive, there are no barriers, there's no registration. ... That's led to this discussion that's completely raw, completely unfiltered.

  Christopher Poole

  Memories, Unique, Archives

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• Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in it.

  Mark McCormack

  Curves, People, Goes On

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• Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.

  Herman Kahn

  Years, Problem, Century

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.9, Lexington Books

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• In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion which I had inherited from my father himself-all of which my father thought I had better rid myself of before I married.

  Isak Dinesen

  Strong, Father, Passion

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.282, Vintage

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• I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Giving, Collaboration, Done

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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• Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her own interest is incorrect. This is shown by what are known as "prisoner's dilemma" situations, which are playing an increasingly important role in discussions of ethical theory... At least on the collective level, therefore, egoism is self-defeating - a conclusion well brought out by Parfit in his aforementioned Reasons and Persons.

  Peter Singer

  Self, Important, Doe

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• Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that law of which the person using the phrase approves[....]

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Law, Example, Phrases

  Vilfredo Pareto (1942). “Non-logical conduct”

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• I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the 'economic means' for the satisfaction of needs, while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the 'political means'.

  Franz Oppenheimer

  Mean, Political, Needs

  Franz Oppenheimer (1923). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

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• Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophical, Men, Words Of Wisdom

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• You've got to treat people as equals, and make them feel like it's their company. I don't know if I've had any impact or helped persuade Frank [to sell Eastern]. But, I can tell you, there were many discussions on the subject.

  Michael Milken

  Impact, People, Aviation

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• More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't! The final retort to that is: I have a doctorate in Catholic theology that I have earned the hard way - by sitting in university classrooms for twelve years. I know what we believe! You get a doctorate in Catholic theology? What do you know about it? Nothing! You don't know anything about it. You're saying things that are born of misunderstanding or ignorance.

  John Corapi

  Believe, Ignorance, Years

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• After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.

  Alexander Kotov

  Sacrifice, Views, Variation

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• Tonally, there was no discussion; I just don’t know any other way to do it. I don’t want to make people feel bad, and I don’t want to make their problems into a joke. I do love telling people when they’re right and wrong, but for the most part, it was always going to be about real fights where people have a real difference of opinion and a real dispute. I want to make jokes, but I also want to make a decision that is fair.

  John Hodgman

  Real, Fighting, Differences

  "John Hodgman, part two: geeks vs. jocks in all walks of life". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.

  Ward Cunningham

  Simple, People, Simplicity

  "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part V". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. January 19, 2004.

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