Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear… — Tyler Burge Copy Share Image
A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“In this sense, reading the text is like a dialogue with the author, and the processing of two segments could be seen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I've been thinking so much about how grateful I am to cover the court because the constraints of calm and civility are… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
The need for civility in society has never been more important. The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes. It… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
President Obama promised to usher in a new era of civility in our political discourse. We should make sure that, quote, "talk… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort… — Jann Wenner Copy Share Image
In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure.… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination.… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I think that's where we can both seize upon the contradictions and push them to limits that these people would not consider,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new… — Ed Gillespie Copy Share Image
What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I always attempt to challenge and upend discourses that appear to be disinterestedly describing the world, but that are in fact wholly… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
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