Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

Pericles (c. 495-429 BC) Greek statesman
Funeral Oration (431 BC). In Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, 2.40 [tr. Crawley & Wick (1982)]

 
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