#discourse

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

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

— Roland Barthes

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Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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Change of weather is the discourse of fools. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. ↗

— John Locke

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Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship. ↗

— David E. Price

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! ↗

— William James

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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. ↗

— Izaak Walton

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With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers. ↗

— James Wolcott

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