Quotes About Discussion

In economics, "The Marxist model seems better to me than the Monetarist model" states a fact (about the nervous system of the speaker, if I must make the obvious even more obvious.) "Marx is true and the Monetarists are refuted" states an opinion disguised as a fact. The former encourages intelligent discussion; the latter virtually incites emotional conflict.

Perhaps you will want time to digest what we've discussed," she

Good-bye, Richard." So much for civil discourse. So much for modern men discussing a modern problem in an enlightened manner. I was thinking that it might be fun to beat him to death.

However ignorant a person may be, he or she can always moralize. And it is the propensity to moralize that takes up most of the space for public discussion in contemporary democracy.

What was he going to say? He doubted she'd want to hear about his favorite topic-which swords were best suited for different situations.

di·a·logue or di·a·log (dì´ Ã¢Ë†â€š-lôg´´, -lòg) n The free flow of meaning between two or more people.

All the discussion in the meeting that day had centered on the impacts to humans. That would be the usual way of most such discussions; but whole biomes, whole ecologies would be altered, perhaps devastated. That was what they were saying, really, when they talked about the impact on humans: they would lose the support of the domesticated part of nature. Everything would become an exotic; everything would have to go feral.

And there by the pump stood a group of women with their hands under their aprons, watching the procession and discussing in hushed voices all this floral display and pomp.

Jack stopped at the entrance, cupping my face. Stick to me like a shadow, you. How many times had he told me that? I regenerate. I need to go first! Dafuq. You're goan to stay behind me and step where I step. Same for you, coo-yon. This ain't up for discussion!

Shall we disembowel the pachyderm in the room?" Lothaire intoned as he took a seat in the billiards den. "Or discuss it? Or whatever one does when an elephant appears indoors.

Gerard doesn't tell me what to do. We discuss everything as a couple, as I imagine most partners do. We have a beautiful relationship and one of mutual trust.

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin!

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

I believe the discussion itself is divine.

We intend to leave it without further discussion. We respect this request by the government of Uzbekistan

I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.

To those who insist that nothing is equivalent to personal experience, We shall renew our argument, begging them to meditate on the preceding lines, drawing their attention to the fact that a just opinion can only be formed when personal sentiment is excluded from the discussion.