"A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions of the view must be committed to some particularly deplorable conclusion. Philosophers are not immune to this way of arguing."

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Dale Jamieson

#Rhetorical Strategies Quotes #Light Quotes #Views Quotes

“The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so.”
“Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.”
“The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.”
“Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don’t like who I am.”
“Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth”

Source : Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.166, Transaction Publishers
“I must confess my distaste for any proposal to use public funds for the support of selected, and thereby, privileged, industrialists, the more particularly if this is to be based on bureaucratic views of what is good and what is bad by way of industrial development. An infant industry, if coddled, tends to remain an infant industry and never grows up or expands.”

Source : "Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council", (p. 116), October 9, 1970.
“Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.”

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