#tori

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages. ↗

— Bob Packwood

#away #been #geniuses #historically #republicans

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#create #how #involved #plots #stories

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#century #cultural #david #find #historians

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

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#been #daytime #decade #declining #gradually

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. ↗

— Plato

#men #minds #rhetoric #ruling

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all. ↗

— George Pataki

#cessation #continuing #effort #even #expansion

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

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#alienation #away #basic #collectivism #countries

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#between #consider #decisive #encounter #faith