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Let's Hear It - Rhetoric Vol.1
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CONSIDER
one of the most
perplexing questions
of our time:
Where do' solutions go when a candidate
gets elected? |
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He: "There is
nothing like experience after all.
She is our
greatest politician."
She: "And there is
nothing holding back her
salary, either." |
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| POLITICIANS
often attack opponents'
ideas as "mere
rhetoric." The habit has given rhetoric a bad rap. In truth, rhetoric
makes
the most of a thought, dressing it for effectiveness. Who would quote
the
most famous lines of history and literature if it weren't for the
artful
way they were put? Can you recognize these famous lines with the
rhetoric
shaken out? |
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Today:
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The originals:
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| 1.
"Should
I really live or what? That's the bottom
line." |
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1.
"To be
or not to be, that is the question."-
William Shakespeare
(Hamlet) |
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"What
I'm sorry about is that I can't die for my
country two
or three times, over and over." |
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2.
"I
only
regret that I have but one life to lose
for my country."-
Nathan Hale |
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"I'll be
back someday." |
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3.
"I
shall
return." -General Douglas MacArthur |
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"Ask
what you can do to help your country, not
the other way
around." |
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4.
"Ask not
what your country can do for you; ask
what you can do
for your country." -John F. Kennedy |
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"The
earth wasn't much of anything until God
said, 'Lights!'
and the lights came on. 'That's good!' He said." |
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5."And
the
earth was without form, and void... And
God said, Let
there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was
good." - Genesis 1:2-4 |
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"It was
the best time in history, but it was sort
of bad too."
Face it, rhetoric's not as "mere" as politicians seem to think. |
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6."It
was
the best of times, it was the worst of
times." -Charles
Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities) |
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Polititics is a lot like
religion. Except in politics,
it's your opponent who confesses your
sins.
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| Now nature
is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being
both the servants of His providence. Art is the perfection of nature.
Were
the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature
hath
made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial;
for
nature is the art of God.—Sir Thomas Browne. |
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DECENT WAY
FRIEND:
"So you're going to make it hot for that fellow who held up
the
bank, shot the cashier, and got away with the ten thousand?"
BANKER:
"Yes, indeed. He was entirely too fresh. There's a decent way
to do that, you know. If he wanted to get the money, why didn't he come
into the bank and work his way up the way the rest of us did?" |
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BAPTISTS
An older southern farmer first joined the
Episcopal Church, then the
Methodist
and next the Baptist, where he remained. Questioned as to the reason
for
his church travels he responded:
"Well, suh, hit's this way: de 'Piscopals is gemmen, suh, but I
couldn't
keep up wid de answerin' back in dey church. De Methodis', dey always
holdin'
inquiry meetin', and I don't like too much inquirin' into. But de
Baptis',
suh, dey jes' dip and are done wid hit." |
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