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An idea, like a ghost . . . must be spoken to a
little before it will explain itself.
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-Charles Dickens
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The discussions of every age are filled with the
issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general
intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which
the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all
thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all
discussion proceeds.
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-F.A. Hayek
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*I always prefer intelligent
disagreement to undigested agreement.
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-John Hospers
Private correspondence to Ayn Rand, November 12,1960
Letters of Ayn Rand, 1995
Chapter 7, "Letters to a Philosopher"
Michael S. Berliner, ed.
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Ideas run wild without discussion.
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-Serge Kahili King
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Men are never so likely to settle a question
rightly as when they discuss it freely.
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-Thomas Babington Macaulay
"Southey's Colluqies on Society," 1830
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~Great minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
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-Laurence J. Peter
Peter's Quotations: Ideas For Our Time,
1977
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Ideal conversation must be an exchange of
thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings
believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
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-Emily Post
Etiquette
Ch. 6
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*[H]ow dull it is to discuss
things with minds devoted to the obvious.
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-Ellsworth M. Toohey, a villain in Ayn Rand's
The Fountainhead, 1943
Part Four, "Howard Roark", Ch. 7
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If other people are going to talk, conversation
becomes impossible.
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-James McNeil Whistler
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