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I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus. — Miguel Syjuco

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. — Henry David Thoreau

I don't really like discussions about a supposed Russian national character. — Garry Kasparov

Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots. — Lex Allen

JUSTICE: Failure is just God's way of making me better. He knocks me down only to lift me up. I'm awesome, and that's the end of the discussion. — Bijou Hunter

A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture. — Henry Fonda

Look, Max, we've had this discussion before. I wouldn't fuck that bitch again with someone else's dick. If — S.H. Richardson

I've had a raging hard-on since you started this whole damned breeding discussion. — Victoria Vane

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion. — James Reston

People plunge hungrily into searching conversations. There's a lot of one-on-one discussion about intimate topics — Susan Cain

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. — Richard Meier

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. — Gerrit Smith

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Kachka ignored him, because he was male and this was an important discussion about battle plans. A discussion only women could truly understand. — G.A. Aiken

When mortals discuss about the eternity,
conclusively it will be a lifetime discussion. — Toba Beta

Dialogue, discussion, and participatory decision making are all part of building self-discipline. — Jim Highsmith

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. — Karl Lagerfeld

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join. — Sarah Mlynowski

Do not enter into a learned discussion with your guests unless you are assured of their ability, so as not to put them to shame. — Judah Ben Samuel Of Regensburg

He continued, "I just want to say that your paper was the best discussion I know of the subject, and I'm grateful that you volunteered to give it. — John Williams

Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future. — Jay Inslee

I have a plan. My plan is to not marry her. Diplomacy be damned. There. End of discussion. — Marissa Meyer

Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion. — Jon Krakauer

I believe the discussion itself is divine. — Rob Bell

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings. — Quintus Tullius Cicero

If I believe we need free personal care, we need an honest discussion about what it costs with a well-managed, well-trained workforce. — Johann Lamont

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm. — Paul Fussell

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity. — Michael Servetus

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. — Vladimir Nabokov

Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue Socrates in The Apology. — Socrates

There is nothing sexier than sword fight. — Stana Katic

Ideas run wild without discussion. — Serge King

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore De Balzac

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress (Joseph Joubert). — David Webb

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor. — Gerrit Smith

Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion. — Mason Cooley

The more degrees of freedom there are in practice, the wider the discussion and debate can be. — Thomas Newkirk

You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment. — Mortimer J. Adler

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it a discussion — Simone De Beauvoir

A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy. — Bob Beauprez

The conversation between your fingers and someone else's skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have. — Iain Thomas

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. — Leon Trotsky

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books. — Richard Flanagan

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion. — Thomas Reed

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. — Charlotte Bronte

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking. — Olafur Eliasson

God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian

Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument ... and the occasional bar fight. — J. Michael Straczynski

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. — Franklin Pierce

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race. — Chris Ware

the best way to crush the discussion, is with a decision. — Jon Acuff

Freedom and order are not incompatible ... truth is strength ... free discussion is the very life of truth. — Thomas Huxley

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems. — Nobu Matsuhisa

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film. — Alan Rudolph

Discussion. Just know that one answer over the other does not equal a solution. It's only a decision. And decisions have ramifications — David Baldacci

The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage. — Ron Ziegler

It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one. — William Sloane Coffin

Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered. — Raheel Farooq

Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed. — Isaac Asimov

Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us. — Cornelius Eady

Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion — Aamir Khan

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion. — Alice Duer Miller

To say that anything was a quotation was an excellent method, in Eleanor's eyes, for withdrawing it from discussion, — Saki

I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights. — Ted Cruz

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads. — Ian MacKaye

Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were. — John Barth

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it. — Rafael Nadal

As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action ... — Ann Scott

Discussion is to Christian philosophy what lab work is to the practice of biology. — Kevin J. Corcoran

The songs we sing to each other are statements. An ongoing discussion in music notes. — Jasinda Wilder

Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion. — Barney Frank

Game calls can't be just, 'Oh, by the way,' as part of a larger discussion. — Marv Albert

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it. — Andre Maurois

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. — Galileo Galilei

The parental units take no notice of me as I make my leave. They are too busy having a discussion. — Cecil Castellucci

Discussion question: Do you think Julie should fuck the warlord? Why or why not? — B.J. Novak

I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either. — Henry Hyde

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game. — Jim Himes

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist. — Robert M. Hutchins

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins. — William Shatner

Doing brings happiness. T
oo much time for discussion - discord. — Theresa Sjoquist

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism. — Daniel Bell

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion. — Spike Lee

We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions. — Jay L. Garfield

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack. — Wendell Phillips

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion ... — James Madison

What makes me most happy is connecting with others. I love meeting new people, being social, and engaging in empowering discussions. — Gabrielle Bernstein

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it. — Joe Torre

A good rule for discussion is to use hard facts and a soft voice. — Dorothy Sarnoff

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. — Mike Godwin

How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion! — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Death had brought them all here for a kind of United Nations summit, a roundtable discussion on nonexistence. — Caitlin Doughty

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them. — Douglas Coupland

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions. — Peter MacKay

All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion. — Bryant McGill

In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck. — Thomas Bangalter

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo