We got to push back the rhetoric,.. We have to fight the good fight.
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Many of us dismiss talk that does not convey important information as worthless - meaningless small talk if it's a social setting or empty rhetoric if it's public. Such admonitions as Skip the small talk, Get to the point, or Why don't you say what you mean? May seem to be reasonable. But they are reasonable only if information is all that counts. This attitude toward talk ignores the fact that people are emotionally involved with each other and that talking is the major way be establish, maintain, monitor and adjust our relationships.
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I'm really worried about the economy, so I was impressed with what Kerry said,.. But I don't know if it's political rhetoric or [there's] something that he can do. I'm still undecided, and probably will be until I go to the polls.
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We need to step back from the day-to-day rhetoric of the negotiations. We're on a slippery slope if we put protection of sectors ahead of an outcome that expands trade.
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I haven't seen a lot of what I would consider real successes yet [with municipal wireless]. I'm watching the hype. More and more cities are announcing they're going to do it, and I get concerned because I'm hearing more and more rhetoric that isn't consistent with the underlying technology.
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The campaign is trying to erase the president's history and to show us a new president, when it comes to his look, his rhetoric and the team working with him.
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I expect him to be straightforward. We won't get a dizzying round of rhetoric. He will say what he means and mean what he says.
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The governor is a great speech maker and if speech making and high-flying rhetoric were things that make this state great, Michigan would be back. I'm an optimist, too. But after three years of lack of results, I wonder if the people of Michigan are getting tired of being told they have to wait some more.
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The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.
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The President's handling of the war has been a toxic mix of ignorance, arrogance, and stubborn ideology. No amount of Presidential rhetoric or preposterous campaign spin can conceal the truth about the steady downward spiral in our national security since President Bush made the decision to go to war in Iraq.
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Part of the strategy is keeping the rhetoric up to remind the Syrians that they are not out of the box yet and that Lebanese democracy has the full support of the Western powers.
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The anti-gay rhetoric is constant.
With traditional notions of privacy being eviscerated almost daily, a new paradigm in political rhetoric rapidly is emerging.
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The rhetoric was not there in the way it has been in the past, but we're still looking at a hike in March.
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That certainly stirred up a lot of political rhetoric because the timing was terrible.
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.. That out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.
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Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.
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I hate the rhetoric of politicians, but I love it when writers lie to me. If novelists ran for office, I would vote for their characters.
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History never repeats itself, historians do.
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible
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Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.
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From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.
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.. Anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15)
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Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.
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Whoever approaches his goal dances
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