- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discussed Quotes
Words for the conversations worth having.
This collection gathers lines about subjects people choose to bring into the open, whether that means a writer wrestling with a sensitive theme or two sides sitting down to find common ground. It's a reminder that most progress starts with someone willing to raise the topic. For more on the people at the center of these exchanges, see Being.
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- Epidemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn't require a visa.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, no self-respecting puncher considered himself dressed for work until he had his feet inside of a pair of $15 boots made by one of the favorite boot-makers, whose merits they discussed about the camp fires night after night.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking.
- Good Deal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although we often discussed the idea of research on the nature of antigen recognition by T cells in the laboratory in the late Seventies while I was still in Basel, the real work did not start until the early Eighties in my new laboratory at M.I.T.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
My diagnosis had been discussed in almost every major medical journal, including the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' and 'The New York Times.'
- Departments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments.
- Forum
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I attended a forum on libel reform at the British Academy in 2011, 20 figures ranging from law professors to leading libel law firm, Carter Ruck, from MPs to free speech groups, discussed the issue of corporations. There was unanimous agreement that there needed to be restrictions on the right of corporations to sue in libel.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'Soorma' was first discussed with me, 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' was fresh in my memory because when I saw it and saw the hard work that went into making Milkha Singh an iconic figure, I felt that a biopic should also be made highlighting the odds that I've fought to make it so far in life.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ours was a family of engineers with no political affiliation; art and culture were the only things that we discussed at home.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.
- Bills
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community.
- Defense
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- Nov 07, 2020