#rhetoric

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In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.


Ron Kind


#back #back up #believe #coming #his

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.


Mary Astell


#design #due #excite #government #hearers

(William) Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.


Henry Adams


#leadership #rhetoric #inspirational

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.


Stephen Colbert


#books #called #college #courses #first

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.


Bruce Schneier


#cannot #contrary #country #damage #despite

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.


Dick Wolf


#basically #businessmen #get #got #negotiating

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible


Arthur Schopenhauer


#pessimism #philosophy #rhetoric #intelligence

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.


Howard Dean


#done #each #fact #hard #just

The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.


Peter Welch


#american economy #bills #congress #dangerous #economy

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.


Paul Getty


#experience #i #i have learned #learned #observation