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  • Of all the horrid hideous notes of woe Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast Is that portentous phrase I told you so.

  • If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies to avert the evil by the processes of education the remedy to be applied is more speech not enforced silence.

  • Todays sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?

  • It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up. It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debating it.

  • Ideas run wild without discussion.

  • It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from ones partner in the discussion which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there the discussion wrighteous stupidityill be the more fruitful the more the partners backgrounds differ.

  • Oscar Wilde said:

    I was saying continued the Rocket I was saying What was I saying? You were talking about yourself replied the Roman Candle. Of course; I knew I was discussing some interesting subject when I was so rudely interrupted.

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