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721 Discussion quotes by 611 unique authors

There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a… — Bobby Jindal
I'm sure a lot of the hardcore folks are going to be up in arms and I'm really looking forward to getting into that discussion… — Warren Spector
When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is… — Irene Rosenfeld
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape… — Ralph P. Martin
[Bush Hating] undermines the good faith necessary for democratic discussion. Which is a large part of what people like Al Franken are all about. — Andrew Sullivan
Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare… — Laura Ingraham
I do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's… — John Galt
Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish… — Peter York
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all… — Wendell Berry
The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of… — H. L. Mencken
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a… — Winston Churchill
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion… — Adam Savage
The purpose of apologetics is not just to win an argument or a discussion, but that people with whom we are in contact may become… — Francis Schaeffer
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions… — John F. Kennedy
In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it. — Andre Maurois
No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts. — Lewis Carroll
Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists,… — Saul Bellow
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. — Russell Baker
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. — James Fallows
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion. — William Ernest Henley
The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question… — Mark Zandi
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or… — James A. Baldwin

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