WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
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A quotation from Post, Emily:

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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.
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wist.info/post-emily/62765/

#quote #quotes #quotation #communication #conversation #oratory #wit

Last updated 1 year ago

PepijnVemer · @PepijnVemer
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For all fans of , here's a nice episode on Slippery Slopes. Unfortunately, very much in a (US) legal context, but instructive nonetheless.

podcastaddict.com/freakonomics

#fallacies #freakonomicsradio #drogredenen #eloquentia #argumentation #oratory

Last updated 1 year ago

History of Rhetoric · @ishrhet
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I now declare this mammut open!

The International Society for the History of Rhetoric is now also present in the fediverse. Just look us up [at]ishrhet[at]zirk.us. More elaborate intro-toot will follow soon.

#rhetoric #HistoryofRhetoric #ishr #rhetodons #histodons #speech #oratory #criticism #teamrhetoric

Last updated 2 years ago

WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
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A quotation from Euripides

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When a sensible man
has a good cause to defend, to be eloquent
is no great feat. Your tongue is so nimble
one might think you had some sense, but your words
contain none at all. The powerful man
who matches insolence with glibness is worst than a fool.
He is a public danger!
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wist.info/euripides/58720/

# arrogance

#quote #quotes #quotation #danger #eloquence #glibness #insolence #madness #oratory #publicsafety #speaking #threat

Last updated 2 years ago

PH1NB📡 · @Bleijswijk
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Only finding this out now. has built in equaliser presets for your specific headphone model, including the highly regarded ones, to get it closer to the harman curve. Blown. Away.

#oratory #Plexamp

Last updated 2 years ago

WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
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A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

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Neither his inability to speak, who understands his subject but cannot set it forth in words, nor his ignorance, to whom substance is lacking though words abound, can merit commendation; and if I had to choose one of the two, I should prefer uneloquent good sense to loquacious folly.
[Neque infantiam eiu…
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wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu

#quote #quotation #eloquence #ignorance #oratory #speech #style #substance

Last updated 2 years ago