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• To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

  William Henry Harrison

  Life Is, Englishmen, Activity

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• We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.

  Bell Hooks

  Education, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to the Victorians--threat and obsession, taboo and fascination.

  Sherry Turkle

  Sex, Taken, Long

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.285, MIT Press

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• I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

  Seth Gordon

  Real, Home, Thinking

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• The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

  Agnes Repplier

  Choices, Support, Essentials

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Tables, Dinner, Might

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• The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Lunch, Remains, Bites

  Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.57, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The issue of comparative performances can be regarded as settled to-day, both scientifically and practically. Though differences in attitudes between men and women still form a favorite topic of drawing-room conversation ... women's abilities are no longer seriously in doubt. These discussions rather seem to be a kind of rearguard action carried on after the main battle has been decided.

  Alva Myrdal

  Attitude, Men, Issues

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• shopping for clothes is like masturbation - everyone does it, but it isn't very interesting and therefore should be done alone, in an embarrassed fashion, and never be the topic of party conversation.

  Lorrie Moore

  Fashion, Party, Shopping

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.604, Faber & Faber

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• Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.

  William Benton Clulow

  Principles, Sometimes, Conversation

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.168

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• I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

  Bruce Feiler

  Writing, Library, Eras

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• No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Class, Mind, Quality

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• I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

  John Burdett

  Thinking, Average, Paris

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• I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• My "home" is a controversial topic. I don't exactly have one. I live all over the world.

  Lady Gaga

  Home, Controversial Topics, World

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Politics and religion are topics that people tend to stay away from in their conversations, because they're polarising. But they are important topics, so they should be discussed the most, so we should know each other's opinions on them.

  Matt Lindland

  People, Important, Opinion

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Nothing's true that I say, because I don't really want to say anything. I don't think my life's that cool, and I don't think my opinion's that valid. They're just silly jokes. Usually I just take a topic that isn't funny at all, like Shakespeare, and work backwards. I just try to find an unfunny subject.

  Bo Burnham

  Silly, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• You've only got to walk into a pub or a café or anything and you'll find people talking about topics they're very unhappy with. You feel as though things are being eroded and people don't know where they belong anymore.

  Sean Bean

  Talking, People, Unhappy

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories.

  Nancy Kates

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if..." and it blossoms into a whole novel.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Book, Ifs And

  Source: www.bookclubforum.co.uk

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• For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much less write about. And that's what I need; that works for me as a writer.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Writing, Journey

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I value my core fans I got from the hood. I think a lot of things might hit home with them, like problems with the law or how I talk about partying - all the different topics I cover when I do rap. But I also value my suburban fans who take a liking to my music and like the way I change cadences. I appreciate all of them cause both types of fans push me to record all the time, both push me to give my best when I do a show. Both push me to be the best rapper and not just do it as a hobby, but do it as a job and take it seriously and put pride in it.

  Gucci Mane

  Jobs, Party, Rap

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• Everybody gets plagued by indifference and monotony. The truth is, there are concepts that are constantly being repeated in this world, since the beginning of time, but it doesn't seem like any of us have mastered them. So my advice is to keep going with the topic, which usually has to do with redemption, love, compassion, freedom, injustice, perversion, divinity, the diabolical... keep going with your thoughts, and your heart, and push them through to transformation.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Heart, Compassion, Advice

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• Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stay Strong, Military, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.326, Best Books on

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• There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented by other people. Just because my characters choose not to react in standard, socially-appropriate ways - that does not mean they don't care. They just reject ordinary dramas.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Drama, Character, Mean

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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