#rhetoric

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#am #care #comparatively #i #i am

.. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile. ↗

— Mark Haddon (Author)

#rhetoric #simile #humor

If my mother's intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case there were enough intermarriages and 'conversions' on both sides of her line to make me one of those many mischling hybrids who are to be found distributed all over the known world. And, as someone who doesn't really believe that the human species is subdivided by 'race,' let alone that a nation or nationality can be defined by its religion, why should I not let the whole question slide away from me? Why—and then I'll stop asking rhetorical questions—did I at some point resolve that, in whatever tone of voice I was asked 'Are you a Jew?' I would never hear myself deny it? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#intermarriage #jews #mothers #nationality #race

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#blood #cheap #cost #freedom #much

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality. ↗

— Allen Boyd

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He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled. ↗

— Pete Hamill

#draws #either #lying #others #rhetoric

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#consistently #convincing #given #his #past

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#american people #buy #democrat #into #must

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief. ↗

— Dick Morris

#burden #cannot #class #class warfare #cuts

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

#artifice #assertion #fact #him #life