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Deborah Tannen Quotes

[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea . . . setting up debates where people learn not to listen to each other because they're so busy trying to win the debate. - Deborah Tannen

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Seeds | Argument | Culture | Classrooms | Teacher |

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We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. - Deborah Tannen

Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. - Deborah Tannen

When you feel that the people you are dealing with day to day don't have manners, it gives you the feeling that the world is somehow coming apart. It makes you feel that everything is out of control. - Deborah Tannen

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