Discourse quotes
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
-- Ben Jonson -
I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.
-- Bob Etheridge -
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises
-- Dennis Potter -
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
-- Diogenes -
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
-- Jacques Derrida -
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
-- Jacques Lacan -
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard -
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What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.
-- Jimmy Wales -
I've been trolled lots. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.
-- Kenneth Goldsmith -
I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
-- Neil Armstrong -
We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.
-- Rae Armantrout -
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Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
-- Samuel R. Delany -
The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.
-- Alison Assiter -
If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
-- Amy Koppelman -
I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).
-- Paul S. Kemp -
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Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.
-- Susan Fiske -
False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.
-- Winston Smith
