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• If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Missing

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• What I hope we will see from [Donald] Trump very quickly is inclusive rhetoric and rhetoric that brings the temperature down and comforts people so that children feel safe going to school.

  Margaret Hoover

  Children, School, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

  Thomas Frank

  Promise, Campaigns, Empty

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to persuade the audience and have the audience think you're smart and cool. And Socrates and Plato, basically their whole idea is, "Bullshit. There is such a thing as truth, and it's not all just how to say what you say so that you get a good job or get laid, or whatever it is people think they want.

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Plato, Smart

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• I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Limits, Knows

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• We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the Common Core. But the American education system historically has not embraced intellectual seriousness.

  Dana Goldstein

  Intellectual, Today, Common

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

  Jessica Valenti

  Feminist, Feminism, Has Beens

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters more.

  Garry Kasparov

  Policy

  "Garry Kasparov on Russia, chess, and the great gambit of AI". Interview with Alexander Bisley, www.macleans.ca. May 1, 2017.

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• Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

  Martha Ronk

  Dark, Mind, Use

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

  John Fund

  Evidence

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• I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Study, Bless, Interest

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• ... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.

  Barbara Kruger

  Photography, Real, Needs

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• If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.

  Michelle Malkin

  White, House, Listening

  "To Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 10, 2012.

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• For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

  Haddon W. Robinson

  Life And Death, Matter, Moral

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• How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?

  Thomas Sowell

  Long, People, Heaven

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• I don't see that there is a credible threat for American action - the rhetoric of the U.S. President is too vague, very amorphous. I don't see that Obama's words will be translated into more tangible intentions and therefore this is probably why the Iranians don't take it seriously. They speak out against it and they dismiss it.

  Tzachi Hanegbi

  Israel, Speaks Out, President

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• These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Ideas, Farce, Genuine

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, p. 157, 1929.

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• The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

  Francis Quarles

  Humility, Voice, Silence

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.91

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• The men who have gotten women pregnant need to be accountable if we are. If we are going to jail, the men are coming too. Religious rhetoric will bite its own ass trying to nail only women in a two-person process.

  Neko Case

  Religious, Men, Two

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• Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities.

  Kenny Smith

  Truth, Philosophy, Perception

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

  Gerrit Smith

  Men, Care, Littles

  Gerrit Smith (1855). “Controversy Between New York Tribune and Gerrit Smith”, p.18

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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.

  Roland Barthes

  Simple, Unity, Accessories

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• "The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes upon the most simplistic and abstract ways of filling its vacuous self-consciousness. Not philosophy but dogma and rhetoric, not rationality but indoctrination and conditioning, provide the cultural junkfood by which the Many perfunctorily slake their thirst and hunger.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Self, People

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• The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and all opportunity for exploring the psychedelic dimension will be closed off.

  Terence McKenna

  Opportunity, Community, Quality

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• We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  America, Action, Construction

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