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#rhetoric

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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.


Christopher Lasch


#appropriate #cried #family #family values #feeling

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.


Camille Paglia


#criticism #despise #european #film #film criticism

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

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.


Boris Johnson


#arnold schwarzenegger #austrian #authority #criticised #denounced

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?


Matt Gonzalez


#ask #going #good #lousy #ourselves

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

HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times, like PT. It's not about being right, they had philosophy for that. Rhetoric was their chat show. Bernard's indignation is a sort of aerobics for when he gets on television.


Tom Stoppard


#art

I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?


Criss Jami


#apologetics #atrocities #belief #bias #biases

In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all collide as requirements for even basic participation in an information-based, technology-dependent economy and society.


Adam J. Banks


#composition #digital #dj #griot #multimedia

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?


Christopher Hitchens


#child-abuse #children #feminism #hell #religion






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