All Quotes By Tag: Rhetoric
“Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.”
“Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.”
“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.”
“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”
“In your name, the family name is at last because it’s the family name that lasts.”
“When I say “The good man gave his good dog a good meal,” I use “good” analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it’s alive as you eat it.”
“Great losses are great lessons.”
“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”
“Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.”
“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”
“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”
“All worries are less with wine.”