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• The big idea behind it was to somehow participate in the discussion about justice. What does it mean to be just to the others out there whose lives we do not think about. One of the answers I came up with was simply tell their stories.

  Teju Cole

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

  Julia Alvarez

  Book, Reading, Difficult Situations

  Source: ncac.org

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• My fear is that that's what's going to happen with robotics and the military. Importantly, this discussion has to involve not just the scientists, but also the political scientists. It's got to be a multidisciplinary discussion. You can't have it be another repeat of what happened with the people working on the atomic bomb.

  Peter Singer

  Military, People, Political

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• More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Jobs, Novelists, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I still love Marvel to death and I had a great experience, and it was a really tough decision to leave Marvel. It was a very easy decision to come to DC; it was very difficult to leave Marvel. And I really wanted to draw Batman, and really, that was entirely the discussion when it came to coming to DC.

  David Finch

  Decision, Tough, Easy

  Source: ifanboy.com

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• The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Photography, Art, Titles

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• They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real and abject (as Julia Kristeva put it) body and denigrated sexuality; on the other, the proliferation of images, and their digitalisation produces more and more abstract and air-brushed representations of impossible female bodies. Both indicate, certainly, a "lack of progress." But, one hopes, discussions and resistance are emerging in response.

  Laura Mulvey

  Real, Air, Hands

  Source: en.aup.nl

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• Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

  Ibn Warraq

  Art, Civilization, Taste

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.13, Encounter Books

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• There were certainly those who rubbed their eyes in astonishment. But when we held a company discussion forum with Joschka Fischer, interest was high. Six hundred senior managers came to the meeting. In the end, there was tremendous applause for Fischer, because he offered a precise analysis of the challenges our industry faces worldwide.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Senior, Eye, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of course is to insure greater supply of energy for California's needs now and in the future in the sense that we are in discussions with representatives of Oregon and Washington, where they do have a surplus supply of energy available, and at what we hope will be a very reasonable price.

  George Deukmejian

  Oregon, California, Energy

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• Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.

  Cornelius Eady

  Crazy, Race

  "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.

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• I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Home, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• I want to use film to tell stories that need to be told to spark discussions that will lead to change. I really want to see a change in the mindset of youth, how they see themselves and how they value life. Young audiences will be able to see themselves in this film and older audiences will gain an understanding of what their kids are dealing with on a daily basis. Kids discuss what they see on TV, social media, film so I want to create content that they will discuss and will change the way they think.

  Jamie Hector

  Kids, Thinking, Media

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Struggle

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• A wonderful blend of technology & people power for India's growth, 'MyGov' has several discussion forums, on-line & on-ground tasks. I am delighted to invite you to join 'MyGov' & contribute towards taking India to greater heights of progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, People, Growth

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• To me, we are in the midst of such broad-scale destruction, both psychically and physically, that the only thing that can threaten the grip, loosen the hold, of economism, I believe, is a discussion of the sacred born out of our regard and compassion and intelligence for the earth and the creatures on the earth.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Compassion, Earth

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• You know, this is a very strange phenomenon. I keep reading that in American newspapers, and I keep reading extensive speculations. I meet with the Chinese leaders periodically, and while I don't say they've endorsed the missile shield, it has not been in the forefront of their discussions.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Reading, Leader, Chinese

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Where we are now is we have resolved the revenue issue and the question is what are we going to do about spending. I wish the president would lead us in this discussion rather than putting himself in a position of having to be dragged kicking and screaming to the table to discuss the single biggest issue confronting our future.

  Mitch McConnell

  Issues, Wish, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

  James Reston, Jr.

  Peace, War, Common Sense

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• Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition is susceptible to rational discussion. The mystic has reasons for what he believes, and these reasons are empirical. The roiling mystery of the world can be analyzed with concepts (this is science), or it can be experienced free of concepts (this is myticism). Religion is nothing more than bad concepts held in place of good ones for all time. It is the denial-at once full of hope and full of fear-of the vastitude of human ignorance.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Ignorance, World

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• While the prosecution has said this is about the defendants lies, one worries that those lies already have been buried under too much discussion of technical issues. The jury may be lost already.

  David Berg

  Lying, Issues, Worry

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• Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

  Julian Huxley

  Ideas, Spheres, Rational

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• Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

  Daniel Bell

  Philosophical, Home, Europe

  Daniel Bell (1962). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties : with "The Resumption of History in the New Century"”, p.309, Harvard University Press

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• In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

  Matthew Kelly

  Focus, Ego, Matter

  Matthew Kelly (2005). “The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.

  Steve Crocker

  Numbers, People, Important

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