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Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
Kenneth Burke
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I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.
Roger Goodell
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There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.
John Harvey-Jones
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Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.
Noam Chomsky
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We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.
Jerry Rubin
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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
William Penn
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Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.
John Fund
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The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.
Virginia Foxx
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Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.
N.D. Wilson
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Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
Philip Massinger
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
Barbara Amiel
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
Paul Getty
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Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
Samuel R. Delany
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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
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Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
Russell Baker
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Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.
John Podhoretz
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We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.
Paul Ryan
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It's very short-sighted and even dangerous to be engaging in the kind of demagogic rhetoric that Donald has about Muslims.
Hillary Clinton
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The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
Richard Whately
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Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters more.
Garry Kasparov
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At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?
Matt Gonzalez
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I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.
Jessica Valenti
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North Korea is a direct threat to the United States. They have been very clear in their rhetoric we don't have to wait until they have an intercont- intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear weapon on it to say that now it's manifested completely.
James Mattis
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I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.
Michael Eric Dyson
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If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.
Kate Zambreno
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Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations.
Eric Dezenhall
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Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.
Robert Hass
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There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
Baldwin Spencer
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My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All the rhetoric going back and forth and sort of hating on each other. So I'm not an extremely politically active person at this stage of my life.
James Mercer
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I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.
Anna Quindlen
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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
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When Donald Trump was first elected, there was a lot of fear of a trade war. They listened to Trump's rhetoric on the campaign. Oh, we're going to put a 45 percent tariff on China, a 35 percent tariff on Mexico. We haven't seen any of that.
Donald Trump