Definition of Discussion

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Definition of Discussion
	Discussion The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like. The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation. Related Definitions: Act, Agitation, Argument, As, Breaking, By, Debate, Discussing, Dispersing, Disputation, Examination, Exchanging, Like, Of, Or, Process, The, Tumor, Up

Discussion Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.
Payne Stewart

Discussion Translations

discussion in Dutch is discussie, bespreking
discussion in French is discussion
discussion in German is Diskussion, Diskussion, Besprechung
discussion in Italian is conferenza
discussion in Latin is sermo, disputatio

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