#orator

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. ↗

— John Vinocur

#any #armies #bravery #disappears #emotions

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#object #oratory #persuasion #truth

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well. ↗

— George McGovern

#good #good man #man #orator #really

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle. ↗

— Theophrastus

#horse #judgment #orator #without

From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#forward #guinea #guinea pig #infection #laboratories

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#easily #failed #first #had #i

Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #chemical #complex #complex system #connections

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem. ↗

— Ed Rendell

#any #being #exacerbate #i #i think

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#only #orator #poor #shows #talk