Rethoric


The Art of Rhetoric
Figures of Speech
Einstein’s Dreams
How to Speak / How to Listen
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Selected Works
Some Aspects of Rhetoric & Prosody
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
Text Structure: A Window into Discourse, Context and Mind
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
Rhetoric (Volume 63) (Theory and History of Literature)
Praktisk retorik: med klassiska och moderna exempel
The Art of Always Being Right
The Art of War
René Descartes
Those who possess the strongest reasoning and who best order their thoughts in order to make them clear and intelligible can always best persuade others of what they are proposing, even if they were to speak only Low Breton and had never learned rhetoric.
René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

Patrick Ness
If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them. ...more
Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

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