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Kenneth Burke Quotes: 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.


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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.



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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.



Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.





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