The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves… — John B. Quigley Copy Share Image
It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the… — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
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One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The one thing that is distinctive about America historically has been the fact that we are all able to engage in public… — Ajit Pai Copy Share Image
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The lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn't physical. It was extreme because you felt… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of… — Mike O'Malley Copy Share Image
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -… — David Abram Copy Share Image
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The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost.… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image
I think we should be very clear on this. You know, this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
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