Quotes with converse

  • We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

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  • John Adams As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville 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.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Samuel Johnson I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Adam Schiff In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Many can argue, not many converse.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Thomas à Kempis No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Leonard Cohen Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • C. Truesdell There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.
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  • Yoshida Kenko To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.
    Yoshida Kenko
    Japanese author and monk (1283 - 1350)
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  • Bell Hooks We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Denis Diderot It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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