"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever..." - Quote by Charles Dickens
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.
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“We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.”
“There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.”
“To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.”