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• Ahmadinijad was stupid enbough to be a wolf in wolf's clothing, to expose his teeth and nails and alert the west. I can be a wolf in sheep's clothing. I have all the diplomatic and rhetoric skills to do so.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Stupid, Sheep, Israel

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• I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Change, Years, White

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

  Paula Vogel

  Impossible, Theater, Conversation

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• You may be right that people say: You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.

  Karl Rove

  Confidence, Jobs, People

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• My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is old people's rhetoric. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This mindset needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from the children. Something I can learn from children is transparency. They are innocent, straightforward, and have no biases. I relate children to simplicity and I think that my friendship with children has a much deeper meaning than others.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Philosophy, Thinking

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• We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Work Ethic, Matching, Ethics

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• President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

  Grace Napolitano

  Past, Insomnia, President

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• We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Leader, Arguing

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• The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.

  James C. Scott

  Order, Civilization, Facts

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• Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

  George Friedman

  Adventure, Issues, Goal

  George Friedman (2011). “The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going”, p.3, Anchor

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• The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

  Thomas Szasz

  Religion, Ingredients, Categories

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1978). “The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression”, p.25, Syracuse University Press

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• Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Talking, Class

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.174, Knopf

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• The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.

  Michel de Certeau

  Art, Journey, Hiking

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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• When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them.

  Richard Moe

  Meaningful, Past, Use

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• It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful.

  Josh Fox

  Powerful, Focus, Bully

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

  W. H. Auden

  Cooking, Meteorology, Would Be

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• What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Writing, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.67, David M Gross

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• Americans understand that the game is rigged, and they've had enough of it. They're ready to fight back. They want a Washington that works for them, i think that people are getting more engaged, politically, and they're seeing through a lot of the rhetoric that politicians have been throwing out there for a long time. They want to see some real change, and I think that's what we need to work on.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Change, Real, Fighting

  "New Day" by Chris Cuomo, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2015.

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• To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Abortion, Ears, Males

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.130, Take Root Media

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• We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. How clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... It is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Dedication, Goal, Perfection

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• A lot of the Republican rhetoric better than the Democrats'. But when they're in office, it's pretty much the same thing. It's serving their supporters, it's corporate welfare, it's cronyism which is so destructive, particularly to the disadvantaged.

  Charles Koch

  Office, Republican, Welfare

  "Charles Koch on the 2016 race, climate change and whether he has too much power". Interview with Matea Gold, www.washingtonpost.com. August 4, 2015.

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• Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations.

  Eric Dezenhall

  Operations, Crisis

  "How to Survive a Scandal". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 10, 2014.

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• White House is ranting up its rhetoric for Republicans, using wild words to attack them over the budget standoff.

  Andrea Tantaros

  White, House, Republican

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We used to actually kill each other before we discovered rhetoric in words. If you look at other countries, there are people attacking each other in parliament and stuff.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Country, People, Looks

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies while showing that the most modern views of science are ignorant and regressive, even if they are accompanied by a leftist-sounding rhetoric.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Views, Ignorant

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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