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Render Educational Accentuated Discourse — Kamil Ali

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. — Harvey Cox

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. — Mason Cooley

Change of weather is the discourse of fools. — Thomas Fuller

The lover's discourse is usually a smooth envelope which encases the Image, a very gentle glove around the loved being. — Roland Barthes

Our public discourse appears permanently riven by conspiracy theories. — Sam Harris

To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. — Paulo Freire

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens. — Mark Kingwell

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead. — Mira Grant

How can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society? — Herbert Schiller

Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we really need them? — George Carlin

Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse. — Mark Twain

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship. — Olympia Snowe

truisms at least have the merit of being true, which distinguishes them from a good deal of political discourse. And — Noam Chomsky

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear — William Shakespeare

Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal. — Namsoon Kang

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. — Izaak Walton

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. — Socrates

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse. — Bob Etheridge

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse. — Gordon Gee

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it. — Charles Spurgeon

False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse. — Winston Smith

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse. — Richard Steele

You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse. — Larry Wall

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. — Bell Hooks

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another. — P. J. O'Rourke

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. — John Locke

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject. — Robert Breault

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall. — Plutarch

It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished. — Soren Kierkegaard

you don't get far in political discourse with counterfactual arguments that "it would have been even worse. — Alan S. Blinder

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter

But why at least? What a business it is, the human discourse. I — John Banville

Dostoevsky's hero is not an objectified image but an autonomous discourse, pure voice; we do not see him, we hear him; — Mikhail Bakhtin

A sat note crept into his voice. "But something's missing now from political discourse."

"What?"

"Caring about others," he said. — Ellen Levine

Neuter discourse is a false idol. — Richard M. Weaver

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. — George Washington

Words are mostly used to keep us asleep, not to wake us. — Richard Flanagan

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. — Homer

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. — Roland Barthes

When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble. — Camille Paglia

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Particular reinscription in the cinema of a discourse of the image and the look in indigenous conventions. — Anonymous

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up. — Amy Koppelman

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience! — Diogenes Laertius

It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere. — Ivan Turgenev

Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity. — Namsoon Kang

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain. — Dave Hickey

It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised. — Nicola Sturgeon

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful. — Joseph Addison

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse. — Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. This — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey. — Safak Pavey

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing. — Izaak Walton

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse? — Theodore Roosevelt

But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell. — Josh Billings

Discourse about the world merges with confessional discourse about oneself. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture. — Thom Mayne

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't. — Jimmy Wales

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs. — Ellen Willis

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

It's a small publication dedicated to a scholarly discourse of the Osamaverse. — Lavie Tidhar

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse. — Tucker Max

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse. — Paul Craig Roberts

I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay. — Herodotus

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact. — Thomas Hobbes

The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil. — Darnell Lamont Walker

My dominant (no pun intended) discourse seems to be needy as fuck. — Alexis Hall

Cosmopolitan discourse ... provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way. — Namsoon Kang

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation". — Peter Heather

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse. — Jim Lehrer

This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others, — Plato

It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective. — Ingrid Newkirk

I am comfortable with my level of public discourse. — Neil Armstrong

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow. — Joseph Brodsky

There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence. — Roland Barthes

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ... — Dorothy Osborne

The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox. — John Paul Stevens

the most basic rule of human discourse: when someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster — Stephen King

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse. — David Hume

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life. — John Silber

I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots. — William Shakespeare

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other. — Jacques Lacan

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome — Ben Jonson

Literature is my Utopia ... No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends — Helen Keller

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth. — Aristotle.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not. — Samuel R. Delany

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick. — Saint Francis De Sales

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements. — Amos Bronson Alcott

... CEOs are the ghost writers of the political discourse ... — Paulo Da Costa

Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors. — Robert A. Caro

The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue. — Samuel Beckett

Now no discourse, except it be of Love;
Now I can break my fast, dine, sup and sleep
Upon the very naked name of Love. — William Shakespeare

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others. — Sergio De La Pava

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted. — Mikhail Bakhtin