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• Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think the administration is quite open and accessible.

  David Rubenstein

  Thinking, Community, Decision

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• The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.

  Peter Welch

  Gun, Hair, Pay

  "Arena Profile: Rep. Peter Welch". Interview with Erika Lovley, www.politico.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I got my degree in rhetoric.

  Alex Borstein

  Degrees

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

  William Butler Yeats

  Imagination

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• The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is that of displaying the structure of the conflict and thereby exposing features of it that may be concealed by rhetoric. In particular, appreciation of the peculiar structure of some of the so-called mixed - motive conflicts represented nonzero-sum games may change the conflicting parties' perception of their situation.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Appreciation, Party, Games

  "Advances in Reversal Theory" by M.J. Apter, ‎J.H. Kerr, ‎S. Murgatroyd, (p. 63-64), 1993.

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• Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Understanding, Perception, Together

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.24, Psychology Press

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• we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Jobs, Poetry

  Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

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• I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Technique, Firsts, Persons

  Time Magazine Interview, February 2, 1976.

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• The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.

  Lucio Russo

  Children, Attitude, Past

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].

  John Kasich

  Opportunity, Thinking, Keys

  "Kasich Takes the Stage". Interview with Zeke J. Miller, time.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Research, Television, Computer

  "Science and Democracy" by Lewis M. Branscomb and Andrew A. Rosenberg, The Scientist, www.the-scientist.com. October 1, 2012.

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• When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Heart, Fire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.65, Penguin

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• I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.

  Paul Broun

  President, United States, Use

  "Did Rep. Paul Broun Flub 'Who is going to shoot Obama?' query?". Statement, www.csmonitor.com. February 25, 2011.

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• People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.

  Carly Fiorina

  Tired, Views, Class

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

  Carly Fiorina

  Accomplishment, Accountability, Titles

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our the Republicans party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.

  Carly Fiorina

  Party, Tired, Offering

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.

  Bruce Schneier

  Country, Way, Damage

  Bruce Schneier (2014). “Bruce Schneier on Trust Set”, p.471, John Wiley & Sons

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• How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

  Francois Rabelais

  Order, Color, Language

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• The communication has evolved to such a degree that kids under 25 can connect to each other so quickly and so immediately that they really don't have the patience or understanding for inherited rhetoric.

  Seth Green

  Communication, Kids, Understanding

  "Interview: Seth Green talks ‘Dads’ controversy". Interview with Liane Bonin Starr, uproxx.com. September 17, 2013.

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• After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

  Mason Cooley

  Ironic, Age, Shy

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• Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Flower, Men

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.162, Oxford University Press

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• Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.

  Jonathan Davis

  Block, Cities, Long

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• we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

  Beatrice Webb

  Fire, Answers, Speech

  Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”

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• Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

  Alice Meynell

  Art, Laughter, Would Be

  Alice Meynell (1925). “Essays”

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• As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they debase religion even more than they misconstrue science. They are a motley collection to be sure, but their core of practical support lies with the evangelical right, and creationism is a mere stalking horse or subsidiary issue in a political program...The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the 'liberal' rhetoric of 'equal time'.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Horse, Lying, Men

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