Practice Rhetorical Devices Repetition Part 2

An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish. (Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad)

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"I don't want to live on in my work. I want to live on in my apartment." (Woody Allen)

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"For the end of a theoretical science is truth, but the end of a practical science is performance." (Aristotle)

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"And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good."

(Genesis 1:24-25 (KJV))

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'Bad men live that they may eat and drink,

whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.'

Socrates (fifth century B.C.)

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"We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us." - John McCain, "2008 Republican National Convention Speech"

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"There's no nation in the history of the world and no city that has seen more immigrants in less time than America. And people continue to come here in large, large numbers to seek freedom, opportunity, decency, civility." (Rudy Giuliani)

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"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude." (Jesse Jackson)

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"We must change that deleterious environment of the 80's, that environment which was characterized by greed and hatred and selfishness and mega-mergers and debt overhang...."

(Barbara Jordan, 1992 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address)

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"The right to bear arms is slightly less ridiculous than the right to arm bears." (Chris Addison)

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