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Because it is idiotic. Writing when there's nothing to say ...
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I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.
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Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
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HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times, like PT. It's not about being right, they had philosophy for that. Rhetoric was their chat show. Bernard's indignation is a sort of aerobics for when he gets on television.
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Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
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By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them
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Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.
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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 of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents.
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My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
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Grammar is ... the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.
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It was a question now, rather than a statement; a question with no answer.
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As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.
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A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
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Rhetoric can be easily recognized for it is delightfully sweet sounding but it is utterly void of sacrifice, which means it is utterly void of substance. Christmas is irrefutable evidence that God never engages in rhetoric.
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I'm very pragmatic.
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How you ask a question and what facts you include when asking your question often influences the answer. This is "framing" your question. There
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Expressing one's reality in words, as truthful as they might be, goads one to insincerity.
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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.
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So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
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First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.
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Prattle without practice
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Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.
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You had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.
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So what you're saying is you can't explain it."
"I did explain it."
"No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.
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Writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it,
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The peculiar circumstances arising out of the fall of the Syracusan tyranny seem to have produced the first practitioners of the art of rhetorical
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A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
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Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.
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Being anti-rhetoric is, finally, just another rhetorical strategy. Rhetoric is what the other guy is doing - whereas you, you're just speaking the plain truth as you see it.
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Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.
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I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.
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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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We're trapped in linguistic constructs ... all that is is metaphor.
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Sarcasm. It's not just a form of speech; it's a dear friend. Oh,
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I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.
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Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.
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In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words: from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading.
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The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.
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Just having an abstract conversation about linguistic parallelism.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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Sometime rhetoric was just
another way to lie and impress persons,
and he knew this
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A "question" is a microscope of words.
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Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.
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somethingological
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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
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I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
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Why am I quoting myself?
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You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.
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Writing is a provocation.
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It is only through the radical defile of speech that we fall into the illusion that language is a register of conscious construction
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I can phrase it as a question if it will make your feathers lie flat.
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The essential business of language is to assert or deny facts. Given
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Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
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Anything to do with persuasion is rhetoric, right down to the argumentum ad baculum, which means threatening somebody with a stick until they agree with you.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
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The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
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Words are mere tools of the mind
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What's wrong with discourses about the obvious is that they corrupt consciousness with their easiness, with the speed with which they provide one with moral comfort, with the sensation of being right.
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A speech without a specific purpose is like a journey without a destination.
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How delicately language skirts the issue. How meaningless it is.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Pedantry. The delight in living. Brio. The chance to act, to mime, to mock, to mimic.
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Logic is relative.
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Words are useless, especially sentences.
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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
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People write about "How they feel"... "Where they are now"...
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How can a man who, for a significant phase of his formation, shared his master's opposition to rhetoric have in maturity composed a masterpiece of the formal study of rhetoric? This
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Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.
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Verbosity is the enemy of eloquence.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
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Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises
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Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.
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Metaphor ... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Egotorial: An editorial in broadcasting or print media where the subject matter is secondary to the superficial, pretentious, antagonistic, or materialistic ego of the author.
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It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.
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Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
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I'm ridiculous, I'm ludicrous.
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I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.
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Writing is a form of self-flagellation.
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Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.
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Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.
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Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
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Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.
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So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.
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Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?
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Can I ask you a personal question? Of all the rhetorical questions
in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its
simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about
to follow.
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Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
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I got my degree in rhetoric.
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The dangerous pileup of modifiers is a hallmark of Joel's rhetorical style.
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Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It's often employed by liars.
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Why do you do that?" he whispered, after a few minutes.
"Do what?"
"Provoke me."
"I don't ... I ... I'm not provoking you. I'm stating a fact."
"Nevertheless, it is extremely provocative. Every time I try to have a conversation with you like a normal person, you provoke me.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.
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I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.