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“The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity.”

Firsts Reason Simple Subjects Unity Photographer Photograph Useless Academic Composition Rhetoric Vulgar Accessories

Author:Roland Barthes

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

Knows Men Littles Care Rhetoric I Care

Book:Controversy Between New York Tribune and Gerrit Smith

Source: Controversy Between New York Tribune and Gerrit Smith

“When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them.”

Way Wells Use Past Left Meaningful Plenty Links Rhetoric Our Past Preservation Good Sense

Author:Richard Moe

“More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.”

World May Language This World Rhetoric Diplomatic

Author:Wen Jiabao

“A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.”

Way Feelings Flower Direct Letters Fancy Rhetoric Quotations Love Letter Deviate True Feelings

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the two biggest challenges of his time right: defeating the Soviet Union and reviving the American economy and spirit. Neither of those achievements was inevitable. Both were fiercely opposed at the time. But he persisted; his visionary focus matched only by a gentleness of character and a brilliance of rhetoric.”

“It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the first place who does not see what dignity they confer on style by their antiquity alone?... And so to interweave adages deftly and appropriately is to make the language as a whole glitter with sparkles from Antiquity, please us with the colours of the art of rhetoric, gleam with jewel-like words of wisdom, and charm us with titbits of wit and humour.”

“I say a vote for the Democrats or Republicans is the ONLY wasted vote.... By buying into the rhetoric that there are only two parties worth voting for...you increase their power. And with it, you promote the watered-down freedoms and endless government growth that these two parties consisently vote for.”

Two Government Politics Growth Party Republican Vote Increase Democrat Endless Buying Voting Rhetoric

Author:Carla Howell

“The problem: Democrats have to drop their stupid class-warfare rhetoric. With 74 million Americans owning stock in one form or another, anything which helps them can't be derided as a sop to the rich.”

Helping Problem Form Politics Class Millions Rich Stupid Democrat Warfare Rhetoric Class Warfare

Author:Dick Morris

“[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.”

Politics Class Rich Democratic Brands Liberalism Resentment Rooted Rhetoric Senators Old Fashioned Polls Risen John Kerry Ted Kennedy

Author:William Safire

“At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.”

Men Littles Bits Democracy Amount Walking Paper Little Bit Crosses Importance Paid Bottom Discussion Voting Overwhelming Rhetoric Diminish Pencils Tribute Little Man

Book:Churchill: The Power of Words

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words

“Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.”

Paint Broads Rhetoric Brushes

Author:George Carlin

“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.”

Feels Mind Art Whole Beautiful Effects Honesty Expression Deeper Impression Naked Rhetoric Deceived Distracted

Book:Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays

Source: Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays

“Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.”

Art Real Literature Morality Accounts Rhetoric

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.”

People Thinking Reason Wave Rhetoric Dogmatic

Author:Samuel Johnson

“To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.”

Heart Found Brain Crime Stupid Weakness Weak Painful Vices Stupidity Contrary Violent Lazy Rhetoric Lungs Cowardly Defenders Kidneys Exaltation

Author:Primo Levi

“The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.”

Action Political Force Imagination Denial Tone Poetic Rhetoric Affirmation Discourse Emphasis Elegant Fanaticism Panthers Timbre

Book:Prisoner of Love

Source: Prisoner of Love

“The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.”

“My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.”

People Bigs Strong Promise Excitement Warmth Rhetoric Glamour Charisma Showmanship

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972

“Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary-from region to region.”

Earth Language Quality Variety Charm Regions Rhetoric Vocabulary Stunning Down To Earth Spelling Syntax Yiddish Pronunciation

Author:Israel Shenker

“It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.”

Conversation Despite Spokes Rhetoric Shallow Occasional Public Speaking Eloquence Gleam Macarthur

Author:William Manchester

“Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.”

Source: Neuropolitique

“I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.”

Men Years Firsts Two Book Courses Language Stuff College Years Ago Western Males Two Years Rhetoric Virginia Great Book Sydney Going To College

Author:Stephen Colbert

“The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.”

Causes Existence Trouble Fine Republican Members Majors Mouths Constant Statements Opening Hospitals Rhetoric Royal Reminders Boost Idiotic Royal Family Hollowness

Author:Alastair Campbell

“Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.”

Politician Republican News Democratic Wicked Activist Rhetoric Outlets Accusation

Author:Gary Bauer

“I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.”

Thinking World Politician Fingers Great Things Rhetoric Pointing Pointing Fingers

Author:Lauren Bush

“Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.”

Thinking World Way Trying Kind Eye Asks Fiction Situation Havens Particular Rhetoric Way Of Thinking

Author:Dan Chaon

“Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.”

People Found Interest Issues Cutting Towns Impact Bills Meetings Daily Life Halls Sincere Rhetoric Colleagues Medicare

Author:Chris Chocola

“It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.”

World Empty Rhetoric Free World

Author:Barbara Amiel

“We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.”

People Real Government Plans Achieve Conflict Strategy Iraq Administration Stability Troops Rhetoric Sovereignty Our Troops Handing Over

Author:Dennis Cardoza

“Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.”

Important Use Used Language Opinion Rhetoric Public Opinion Fooled Use Of Language

Author:Ray Comfort

“The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not.”

Has Beens Sides Policy Republican Minorities Rhetoric

Author:Mario Diaz-Balart

“In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.”

Book Ideas Use America Evil Sides Can Do Cases Clear Right Now Smart Opposites Bombs Rhetoric Grounded

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.”

People Democrat Rhetoric

Author:Virginia Foxx

“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?”

Running Action Asks Rhetoric

Author:Matt Gonzalez

“Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.”

Evidence Rhetoric

Author:John Fund

“I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.”

Writing Kind Whole Flaws Rhetoric Posture

Author:Barry Hannah

“The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.”

People Results Issues Security Demand Rhetoric National Security

Author:J. D. Hayworth

“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.”

Wells Shows Lying Animal Behinds Huge Rhetoric Circus Theatrical Attending Wild Animal

Author:Tippi Hedren

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