Quotes with discourse

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  • John Locke There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Bell Hooks To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
    Source: Ending Racism Killing Rage
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bernhard Schlink What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • William James Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Blaise Pascal When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Camille Paglia When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994) p. 33
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Helen Keller Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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