Francis Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute... nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

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Francis Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

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Francis Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

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Francis Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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Weigh

Id like to cut your head off so I could weigh it, what do ya say?
Five pounds, six, pounds, seven pounds
Id like to go to your house and gather all your razors and pick all the
Little prickly hairs so I can weigh them, what do ya say?
Five pounds, six pounds, seven pounds
Id like to gather all your friends and squish them all into a small
Swimming pool so I can weigh them, what do ya say?
Five pounds, six pounds, seven pounds
Why weigh on a sunny day?
So much to do so why, why weigh?
On a sunny day, why wei-igh-hey?
Why weigh, why weigh?
Id like to hear my options, so I can weigh them, what do ya say?
Five pounds, six pounds, seven pounds
Why weigh on a sunny day?
So much to do, so why, why weigh?
On a sunny day, why wei-gh-hey?
Why
Oh why[x11]
Why weigh?

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Plato

But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.

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Oscar Wilde

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

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Political Discourse

Political discourse
Good and pious for the
Country you have
If it is positive
And you are not here
To Pollute this anyway
Political discourse
Is not mud-slinging
And muck-raking exercise
Political discourse
Again not
Inflated rhetoric.

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In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.

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Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well then; I contradict myself.

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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

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Federico Fellini

I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.

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White Dicussion

I talk of freedom
you talk of the flag
I talk of revolution
you'd much rather brag
and as the decibels of this disenchanting
discourse continue to dampen the day
the coin flips again and again and again
and again as our sanity walks away
all this discussion
though politically correct
is dead beyond destruction
though it leaves me quite erect
and as the final sunset rolls behind the earth
and the clock is finally dead
I'll look at you, you'll look at me
and we'll cray a lot
but this will be what we said
this will be what we said
look where all this talking got us baby

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We, the most powerful democracy in the world, have developed a strong norm against talking about politics. It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with. Political discourse becomes isolated, and isolated discourse becomes more extreme. We say what our friends want to hear, and hear very little beyond what our friends say.

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They Always Ask...

someone yet have to ask
why young man do you talk and talk and talk?

the years weigh heavy on our shoulders
like ploughs and steel balls and iron chains

we grow old and wrinkles grow like
onions in a row

someone yet have to ask again
why all these deep silence for all those years?

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What Life Is Like

Life is good to the nice in
every way but it is dark and gloomy
with thunder and lightning storms.

That's the way it goes for the bad people
but still the sad people read sad books,
read like sad people, walk like sad people,
look like sad people and talk like sad people
but beware don't talk to the mad people
because they will blame it on you.
leave them in the corner because they may get over it
if you don't talk to them also if you talk to them they will move
but if you don't talk to them then they wan't move
and always remember they are very mad.

Happy people we all talk to them because
they are are always happy
also they listen in all the ways they can
but remember keep them that way OK.

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White, Discussion

I talk of freedom
You talk of the flag
I talk of revolution
Youd much rather brag
And as the decibels of this disenchanting
Discourse continue to dampen the day
The coin flips again and again, and again,
And again as our santity walks away
All this discussion
Though politically correct
Is dead beyond destruction
Though it leaves me quite erect
And as the final sunset rolls behind the earth
And the clock is finally dead
Ill look at you, youll look at me
And well cray alot
But this will be what we said
This will be what we said
Look where all this talking got us baby.

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A Confession

Her heart an open book
Easy to read
Emotions bald for all to observe
A confession to the one
Who denied her soul
As she read his text
Weigh heavy on chest
Squeezing the life from her faint heart
He could not read between the lines
How sincere her words
Until it was too late
Reading the diaries of a broken heart

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

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As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

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