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Letter "D" » discussion
«Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.»
«Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the ''healing-power'' gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.»
Author: Florence King
| Keywords:
discussion, favored, gang, gangs, Good Natured, healing, inspires, jocular, jugular, sympathetic, tear down
«A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights»
Author: Lance Morrow
(Essayist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
animal rights, discussion, end-all, living room, loose, rattlesnake, tends, tends to
«Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.»
Author: Robert Quillen
| About:
Arguments,
Ignorance,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
argument, discussion, exchange, the discussion
«As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
| Keywords:
defended, discussion, guarded, Human rights, public discussion, Public place, public speaking, Public welfare, welfare
«An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
addressing, an American, converse, conversing, discuss, discussion, dissertation, gentlemen, the discussion
«As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Leadership,
Opinions
| Keywords:
all along, con, cons, directed, discussion, endeavored, flock, go out, nimble, oftentimes, represent, shepherd, shepherded, stays, the discussion, The Others, venturing, whereupon
«Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Authority,
Memory
| Keywords:
discussion, relies, uses
«A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.»
«Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Bigotry,
Enthusiasm
| Keywords:
antidotes, bigotry, buoyant, discussion, disease, free discussion, morbid, the discussion
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