"Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example."

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Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.39, Broadview Press

Randal Marlin

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.”

Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf
“The other players of job market are Global Competitors, the glamour corporations in high technology, telecom, entertainment, consumer products and pharmaceuticals who are the headline makers as they move jobs, services and production around the globe. They pay the highest salaries, but offer little in terms of job security, training, or careers.”
“I guess I'm just in the flow and riding the wave,”
“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
“I love being on the road, I love playing.”
“One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.”
“It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight.”
“I went to see Shine a Light, and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. Its primarily Mick Jagger, but theyre all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. Its just deeply, deeply attractive.”

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