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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…
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The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.
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The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.
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Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use…
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Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
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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…
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The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use…
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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…
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Stories are equipment for living.
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Dignity belongs to the conquered....
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Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.
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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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Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of…
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We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards…
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Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.
— Kenneth Burke
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Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms…
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If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming…
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I should say we know that there are many, many other Earths out there. We're almost certain that there will be upwards…
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We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we…
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone…
— Adrienne Rich
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I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets.…
— Kerry Greenwood
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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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