"Stories are equipment for living." — Kenneth Burke
"Stories are equipment for living."
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Kenneth Burke
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19 Quotes by Kenneth Burke
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Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of…
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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:…
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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…
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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]…
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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;…
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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,…
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Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as…
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More Equipment Quotes
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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and…
— Lance Armstrong
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I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million…
— Antonio Banderas
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there…
— Warren G. Bennis
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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
— David R. Brower
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If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping…
— Bill Bryson
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we…
— Benjamin Carson
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In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
— Julia Child
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I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.
— Kurt Cobain
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It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
— Sam Abell
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And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and…
— John Abizaid
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Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.
— George Shearing
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In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of…
— Martin Ryle
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