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Quotes About Discussion

It is not to compare Ali and Allah. It is to discuss between tyrant Yazeed and veracity of Hussainiat.
~ Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh
I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion
~ Aamir Khan
I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30 and want to look that way again.
~ Brigitte Nielsen
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Freud found that the most central childhood problems regularly surface not in discussion but in disguised form in the analytic relationship. It
~ Stephen A. Mitchell
Zweig said of the Joint, "Later, at some future date, we shall again gladly and passionately discuss whether Jews should be Zionists, revisionists, territorialists or assimilationists; we shall discuss the hair-splitting point of whether we are a nation, a religion, a people or a race. All of these time-consuming, theoretical discussions can wait. Now there is but one thing for us to do—to give help.
~ Stephen Birmingham
Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
~ Stephen Fry
You seem to know a lot about this particular genre we're in," he says.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
~ Stephen Hawking
They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.
~ Stephen L. Carter
Socialism, like every other impassioned human effort, will flourish best under martyrdom. It will languish and perish in the dry sunlight of open discussion.
~ Stephen Leacock
The long and painstakingly detailed discussions seemed to me nothing more than the incessant nattering of toads in a water filled ditch and of no greater consequence.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
They were deployed not just to dodge a particular discussion, but to recast cynicism as a form of wisdom, and moral negligence as a form of martyrdom.
~ Steve Almond
Don't argue with an idiot, he'll only beat you with experience.
~ Steve Berry
The CIA's job was to tell presidents about dangerous surprises, it was that simple. This led Tenet quickly to the threat of terrorism, missiles, and weapons of mass destruction. Through discussions at the White House he absorbed and then recapitulated Clinton's own emerging obsessions with terrorism and especially biological weapons.
~ Steve Coll
There's nothing to tell." I gave her a brief discussion of fertilizer. She seemed unimpressed with my agricultural expertise. "Believe what you like," she said. It was good to have permission, but I resisted telling her so.
~ Steven Brust
Almost half the adult population finds discussing the subject of money difficult. Slang words help us to navigate these conversations by making us feel more comfortable and confident.
~ Susie Dent
Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
~ Fran Lebowitz
We need immigration reform, but we need open-air, smaller bills that are germane to an issue and have an open discussion with the American people.
~ Paul Gosar
It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
~ Naomi Wolf
My dad is a very good sounding board. He's very, very smart. Both of my parents are very, very sharp, much smarter than I, I'm happy to acknowledge.
~ Joshua Malina
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 should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.
~ Adam Savage
People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.
~ Jim Lehrer