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«Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.»
«Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory»
«If the state of oratory that inundates our educational institutions during the month of June could be transformed into rain for southern California, we should all be happily awash or waterlogged.»
Author: Samuel Gould
| Keywords:
awash, California, educational, educational institution, happily, June, oratory, southern, Southern California, Southern states, transformed, waterlogged
«The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
oratory, persuasion, persuasions, The Object of
«Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks»
«ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cheat, Cheat The, conspiracy, oratory, stenography, tempered
«The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.»
«Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptable, oratory, unbelievable
«There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Speech
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apparatus, convictions, debauch, debauched, debauching, Delusions, fuddle, oratory, persuasive, practiced, The Mental, tricks, upset
«When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.''»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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answered, aspects, Demosthenes, oratory, The three
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