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Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Ron Paul

War, Powerful, End

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom, Debate, Dissent

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

Time, Why, Everyone

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Freedom, Mind, Real

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.
Stephen King

Smart, Serious, Whole

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore de Balzac

Power, Political, Action

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert

Victory, Progress, Aim

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
Galileo Galilei

Problems, Natural, Begin

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Thomas Huxley

Life, Strength, Truth

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen

Knowledge, Ignorance, Argument

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

Person, Cannot, Become

In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.
Vinoba Bhave

Life, Long, Nothing

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
Karl Lagerfeld

Shoes, Clothes, Childish

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
Alfred P. Sloan

Time, Decision, Give

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.
Christopher Hitchens

Become, Possible, Liberal

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
Paul Wellstone

Teacher, Why, Himself

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
Franklin Pierce

Subject, Animated, Trifling

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.
Paul Ryan

Business, Death, Job

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'
Brian Eno

Everyone, Making, Action

Discussion in America means dissent.
James Thurber

America, Means, Dissent

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Lord Acton

Justice, Nothing, Show

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
Karl Lagerfeld

Wanted, Tell, Whatever

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
Lance Morrow

End, Living, Rights

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
Camille Paglia

Marriage, Education, Home

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Word, Fresh, Ground

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
William Jennings Bryan

Great, Until, Attention

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Lord Acton

Ignorance, Simple, Two

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Same, Rights

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Vladimir Nabokov

Teacher, Two, Young

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Leon Trotsky

Time, Great, Mistakes

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