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• Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And…
• The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.
• The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.
• Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use…
• Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
• Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of…
• The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use…
• Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to…
• Stories are equipment for living.
• Dignity belongs to the conquered....
• Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.
• You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your…

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