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Language does our thinking for us.


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You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his



Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.



We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.



A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.



Stories are equipment for living.

Stories are equipment for living.



The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.



Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.



If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.



The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.



Dignity belongs to the conquered.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.





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