{"quotes":[{"text":"I hated discussing ideas with investors,' he said, 'because I then become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.' Once you became an idea's defender you had a harder time changing your mind about it.","author":"Michael Lewis","tags":["debate","discussion","ideas"],"id":11087,"author_id":"Michael+Lewis"},{"text":"The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["america","discourse","discussion","meetings","race-relations","racism"],"id":15114,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body was astonished at the opinion of the others.","author":"Jane Austen","tags":["children","discussion","formal-visits","visiting"],"id":22052,"author_id":"Jane+Austen"},{"text":"On matters where it is difficult or impossible to pin the blame for their policies' failures on conservatives, the fallback position has been to hurl a slur at anyone pointing out the obvious failure....The left's never-ending use of these worn-out attacks on the character and motivations of those who disagree with them has caused them to lose their effect....At the ground level, since liberals have lost the ability to win any and every political discussion by hurling a slur, they are simply resorting to the next level in political interaction: violence and physical intimidation.","author":"Sean Harshey","tags":["debate","discussion","insults","liberalism","liberalpolitics","liberals","personalattacks","violence","violent"],"id":33140,"author_id":"Sean+Harshey"},{"text":"Out of all the other gangs that were around, you could always have come to the reasoning table of the Rebellions without being fearful and present your case, and whatever is decided at the reasoning table you know that is what it will be, whether it’s war or peace. Unlike the other gangs that were around, you didn’t even know who to talk to. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members.","author":"Drexel Deal","tags":["communication","community-policing","conflict-resolution","discussion","gangs","listening-ear","peace","police-outreach","present-your-case","reaching-gang-members","reasoning","rebellion-raiders","youth-outreach","youth-programs"],"id":51647,"author_id":"Drexel+Deal"},{"text":"She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both hiding and residing inside her heart. Her good twin was not bad at all. But her evil twin was even better, and showed up to be way too fatal!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["actress","aspects","astrological","astrological-omens","astrology","astrology","behavior","blond-beast","blonde","celebrities","celebrity","cinema","conflict","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-thriller","culture","discussion","dispute","double","double-agent","double-personality","dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde","duality","entertainment-industry","fame","famous","film","gemini","good-and-evil","gossip","heart","hollywood","hollywood-culture","intellect","intellectual","intelligence","literature","marilyn","marilyn-monroe","misery","misticism","model","move","movies","murder","murder-mystery","murderers","murmur","mute","mystery","opposites","psychological","psychological-thriller","psychology","split","split-personality","spy","spy-thriller","spying","twin","twin-towers","twins"],"id":53593,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand.","author":"Augustine of Hippo","tags":["discussion","replies","stubbornness","trolls","understanding"],"id":53972,"author_id":"Augustine+of+Hippo"},{"text":"So you have something important to say, so you interrupt an exciting conversation already in progress just to let us know you have nothing to contribute to the discussion. Umm....","author":"Troy Ragland","tags":["contribution","conversation","discussion","forget"],"id":54113,"author_id":"Troy+Ragland"},{"text":"Discussions should always be held just before going to bed, your rear protected by sleep. How painful, after an intellectual conversation, to have to go about with your mind so stirred up.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["discussion","sleep"],"id":56390,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"When it comes to moral dilemmas and matters of discerning right justice, my natural sympathy so often happens to land on the opposite end of that of most of my peers. I sometimes wonder if this is nothing more than the misguidedness and the wickedness of my own heart. I wonder other times if God wires some of us in such a way so that fair discourse might then be provided, so that honest and unbiased, due process is ultimately more likely to be carried out. Perhaps it is all necessary for variance of perception, for mindful debate: that the heart is meant to create a bit of bias on certain issues; as between one another, they weigh and balance. For not all hearts are the same.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["argument","bias","compassion","court","debate","discerning","discourse","discussion","empathy","evil","god","good","heart","immorality","injustice","judgment","justice","love","mercy","misguided","morality","opinions","perception","perspectives","problems","solutions","sympathy","trial","truth","variance","wicked"],"id":58650,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}