Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
quote by Miguel de Cervantes
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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.
poem by Gajanan Mishra
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
quote by Roland Barthes
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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.
quote by Jim Lehrer
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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
quote by Kenneth L. Pike
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Intelligent Discourse!
liberation...
intelligent discourse,
opposing sides presented
with respectful candor.
the willingness to listen,
and to hear!
the unified decision to change,
evolving, as fire and water
coexist!
the bridge between us
built by both sides!
the first steps in crossing....
intelligent discourse!
poem by Eric Cockrell
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A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
quote by Johann Georg Zimmermann
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Of Things Missed
So many, the people
With clear cold command
Of the language
And fully utilized by them
in daily discourse
And yet know little, or not…
Of the texture and design
In the weave of the words, and
Know or suffer not
A whit or hint of remorse
Of the richness of
The pleasures inherent
Tho' obviously to most,
not apparent
In the daily, depths
Of Deep discourse
The wealth of treasure
In daily words
By most is simply, sadly, missed
Yet in the majority not e'en noticed
For most…ignorance is bliss
poem by David Whalen
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The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.
quote by George Combe
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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.
quote by Lawrence Lessig
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Feminist Vogue
Women expelled
pushed to rim
buried under snowdrifts
in earlier epochs
signaling mounting
phobic masculinity.
Presumptuous paper mountains
pile up academically learnedly
writers postmodernist bourgeoisie
dispute white male middle class
dominant discourse disclaimed
centre focus on discourse of other.
Autumn thaw
snow melts
washing away
discourse
illegible illegitimate.
In a classical era narcotic
Sibylline raving discourse
was translated hailed officially
as indisputable revelation oracle
god spoken charged for accordingly.
Was revelation the ultimate
in recognized esteemed fabled
female divine ancestral wisdom?
Or another glaring example exhibiting an
established manipulative male priesthood?
Ultimately entrenched power
is derived from concerted ability
displayed by reining puppet masters
pulling skillfully plied hidden strings
which make plebeian masses dance magically.
Is this dance madness
or artistry magnificent?
Victors, vanquished, masses,
scholars, paupers and history
may all beg to differ
their postulated synopsis
dramatically and significantly
in inscribed or transcribed reviews.
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Such as the man is, such will be his discourse.
He who is of the craft can discourse about it.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
quote by Thomas Fuller
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Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
quote by George Washington
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Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.
quote by Joe Bob Briggs
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I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
quote by Jean-Francois Lyotard
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
quote by John Locke
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Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
quote by Mason Cooley
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A Tardy Apology
You ask me, friend,
Why I don't send
The long since due-and-paid-for numbers;
Why, songless, I
As drunken lie
Abandoned to Lethean slumbers.
Long time ago
(As well you know)
I started in upon that carmen;
My work was vain,--
But why complain?
When gods forbid, how helpless are men!
Some ages back,
The sage Anack
Courted a frisky Samian body,
Singing her praise
In metered phrase
As flowing as his bowls of toddy.
Till I was hoarse
Might I discourse
Upon the cruelties of Venus;
'T were waste of time
As well of rhyme,
For you've been there yourself, Maecenas!
Perfect your bliss
If some fair miss
Love you yourself and _not_ your minae;
I, fortune's sport,
All vainly court
The beauteous, polyandrous Phryne!
poem by Eugene Field
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