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The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.
- Chris Ware
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
- Iris Chang
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When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion.
- John Harvey Kellogg
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Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better.
- Richard Cabral
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I think it will bring back discussion about Columbine. When Columbine happened it was the topic of the week, and we shouldn't have just moved on to something else. Whether people like the film or not, it's going to make them think about what happened.
- John Robinson
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Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
- Alan Rudolph
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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
- Vladimir Nabokov
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You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.
- Anatoly Chubais
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There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.
- Daniel Pfeiffer
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There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe?
- Andrew O'Hagan
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The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.
- Susie Orbach
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
- Jackson Katz
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You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.
- Eugene Jarecki
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Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.
- Harri Holkeri
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I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.
- Miguel Syjuco
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When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.
- Alfonso Cuaron
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If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
- Paul Wellstone
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I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.
- Aretha Franklin
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We need immigration reform, but we need open-air, smaller bills that are germane to an issue and have an open discussion with the American people.
- Paul Gosar
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The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. It's a status that does exist.
- Clive Davis
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There are a lot of comics at the top end making staggering amounts of money and selling out stadiums. I think stand-up is a more intimate thing than that. Maybe because of the kind of comedy I do. It's like a discussion, but I'm the one with the microphone.
- Marcus Brigstocke
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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
- Ian Mckellen
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I'll play for whoever wants to have me. It's an honor to be in the discussion for anything.
- Joe Burrow
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Every single discussion I have with a first AD, or producers, is time of day. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've fought for early-morning calls. The light is 90 percent of our job; we as humans respond to light and where it is at different times of day and not only in positive ways.
- Greig Fraser
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There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well.
- Mark Kelly
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The discussion of 'V for Vendetta' - on Pinocchio Theory in particular - has been far more interesting than the film deserved. Yes, there is a certain frission in seeing a major Hollywood movie refusing to unequivocally condemn terrorism, but the political analysis in the film (as in the original comic) is really rather threadbare.
- Mark Fisher
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One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.
- Dudley Field Malone
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You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.
- Peter MacKay
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The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.
- Fredrik Bajer
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To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.
- Fredrik Bajer
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.
- Charles Babbage
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Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
- Godfried Danneels
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Al Qaeda has dominated the battlefield of the soul among the disaffected, disenfranchised, and dissatisfied. It promises action instead of discussion.
- Malcolm Nance
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If the great thing about the Internet is that it throws wide the doors of discussion to everyone, the bad thing about the Internet is that it throws wide the doors of discussion to everyone.
- Howard Jacobson
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To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
- Thomas Reed
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In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
- James Reston
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Individuals and businesses must participate in a national discussion about a simpler tax system, one that collects sufficient revenue to meet appropriate federal responsibilities, but one resting on a broader, fairer tax base without penalizing saving and investing, the backbone of a strong, decentralized and thriving economy.
- Mike Crapo
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We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.
- William P. Leahy
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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
- Charles Babbage
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The focus for me is always about health. That's why I talk about self-care rather than size or anything like that, because that's something we can all do that's relatable - this discussion of being healthy form the inside-out.
- Iskra Lawrence
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Bitcoin and the whole discussion around it shows how big a need there is for innovation about what money is and how it is stored.
- Taavet Hinrikus
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Festivals are where I see other peoples' films, where we talk, where I get to learn what was working about the film, I get to have a discussion with viewers... and people who enjoy reading films - I enjoy reading other peoples' films, and what discussions can come of that.
- Debra Granik
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What I would like is to at least have a discussion with the coach, that he tells me what he thinks. I have to know.
- Karim Benzema
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There's a lot of propaganda that contaminates a discussion around what we should do about pipelines, how our economy may or may not be dependent on exports of raw bitumen.
- Elizabeth May
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No one likes when debate gets stifled, when these events get cancelled, whether it's a former president or prime minister of Israel, whether it's a discussion on a panel.
- Andrew Scheer
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Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.
- Paul Berg
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Any discussion involving the ownership of women's bodies is one to be had! We must manifest the right!
- Kiersey Clemons
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For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of 'Supergirl' and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don't want it to be the same as the Superman story.
- Helen Slater
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In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.
- Rene Cassin
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I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
- Michael Servetus
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Between finishing emails, loading the fridge, unloading the dishwasher, getting our son to eat his chicken nuggets and my dog to swallow her pill, it takes approximately 32 days for my husband and I to complete a discussion and 46 to wrap up a fight.
- Emma McLaughlin
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I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is at stake in our policy and the actions of our government.
- Joe Wilson
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
- Pat Metheny
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I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.
- John Sununu
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I have ideas, but those ideas could be wrong. The only way that you would change someone's mind is through dialogue, through productive discussion. If you're not going to have productive discussion, what are you going to do?
- Tennys Sandgren
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Anyone who knows me knows how sharp my mind is. I speak at a thousand miles an hour. I'll hold a discussion or a debate with anyone.
- Mark Hunt
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There is a daily discussion with our servants about the price of food and the number of loaves: a conference with our presbyters to consider the sins of our people is a very rare occurrence.
- Saint Bernard
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Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
- Protagoras
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The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.
- Peter Bart
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I have always encouraged open and frank discussion among embassy employees and the expression of dissenting views, because this is the best way to maintain morale among embassy personnel and to arrive at sensible decisions which are in the best interests of the United States.
- Jean Kennedy Smith
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With 'Inside Out,' no matter how good the photo or how big the pasting, people will like it or they won't. But what you see through any of these actions is that there's going to be discussion and it's going to bring people together.
- JR
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If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
- Bill Gates
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The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete.
- Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.
- David Chalmers
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In our era of celebrity, where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space.
- Lily Koppel
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The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.
- Simon Conway Morris
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
- Barney Frank
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The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion.
- Gerhard Schroder
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
- Rafael Nadal
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Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.
- Richard Dreyfuss
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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
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As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.
- Shahid Khan
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I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It was just something gently imposed.
- Peter Shaffer
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When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, suggesting that such a discussion is unworthy of consideration by voters.
- Robert Dallek
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We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.
- Russ Feingold
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As a very small boy, my passion was nature, and I had pets - cats, a dog and a bunny rabbit - and I wrote a very small book called 'My Pets,' filled with their photographs and a discussion about my pets and how much I loved them... That was my first book.
- Tony Buzan
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It's nice to be able to sit down and have a discussion about something for more than four minutes, and not look at your watch and go, 'Oh my God, I just spent $40,000 of HBO's money.'
- Brad Hall
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Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.
- Alexander Downer
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Fashion is an industry of action, not discussion.
- Imran Amed
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A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
- Lance Morrow
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Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.
- Colin Farrell
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The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.
- Robert Foster Bennett
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I offered early on - I think I was governor about a month when I met President Obama - and said, 'I would like to visit with you in reference to border security, in reference to immigration. I'd like to be part of the discussion because I lived on the border all my life.' I've never received a call.
- Susana Martinez
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I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture.
- Henry Fonda
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We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.
- George Allen
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I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums.
- Palmer Luckey
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What's wrong with Singapore is the idea that things need to be done in a certain way or not at all. Black or white. No room for alternative discussion.
- Nicole Seah
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Bringing accountability to the judiciary must be preceded by frank public discussion and debate. Unfortunately that cannot get started with the threat of contempt looming over people.
- Prashant Bhushan
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A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.
- Bob Beauprez
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By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'
- Lena Olin
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The discussion about energy options tends to be an intensely emotional, polarised, mistrustful, and destructive one. Every option is strongly opposed: the public seem to be anti-wind, anti-coal, anti-waste-to-energy, anti-tidal-barrages, anti-carbon-tax, and anti-nuclear.
- David J. C. MacKay
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The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.
- Mike Royko
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It feels like we're all so familiar now with the traditional three-act structure that, actually, stories that are more complex, more naughty, that allow for disagreement and discussion, are more interesting to us.
- Kevin Macdonald
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Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
- William Ernest Henley
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If you let things devolve into a shouting match, then it's really difficult to have a discussion, a serious discussion.
- Brianna Keilar
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Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
- Leon Trotsky
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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
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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
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