#rhetoric

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It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.


Pat Sajak


#arms race #beat #been #country #down

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

What makes a man a 'sophist' is not his faculty, but his moral purpose. (1355b 17)


Aristotle


#rhetoric #sophists #art

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.


Jaron Lanier


#cheerful #consistently #express #future #human

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

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.


Roger Goodell


#caught #comments #get #i #made

It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.


Tippi Hedren


#attending #behind #cared #good #happy

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.


Adolf Hitler


#any #appeal #broad #force #masses

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.


Stephen Spender


#course #dreams #high #horse #i

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.


Virginia Foxx


#american people #buy #democrat #into #must