| Distinctio: Figure of explication in which an introductory reference to a word's meaning is made (e.g., "by x I mean", "which is to say that", "that is") followed by a further elaboration of that word's meaning; explicit definition of or elaboration upon the meaning or meanings of a particular word or set of words. |
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"Let me walk you through the five
procedural errors that occurred in conjunction with that mission [the
flying of 12 cruise missiles back to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana] that
facilitated this serious and unprecedented incident. As you see here --
if we'll bring up slide 1, please -- on the morning of August 29th, a
team of Minot airmen was dispatched to the base Weapons Storage Area to
pick up and transport two pylons to a Barksdale B-52
aircraft. For those of you unfamiliar with the term "pylon," for
our purposes today, a pylon is a self-contained package of six cruise
missiles that can be quickly mounted to the wing of a B-52." -- U.S. Department of Defense briefing on B-52 munitions and the "Bent Spear" incident, delivered 20 October 2007 by Major General Richard Y. Newton III, USAF |
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"I've been in football all my life, really, and I want to say this -- that it's a great game, and it's a Spartan type of game. I mean by that it takes Spartan qualities in order to be a part of it, to play it. And I speak of the Spartan qualities of sacrifice and self-denial rather than that other Spartan quality of leaving the weak to die." -- Vince Lombardi |
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"'Demoralization.' I
distinguished in that book two senses of demoralization: the
familiar one of the loss of morale, of contentment, and good spirit --
and the more serious one of the loss of morality, of moral bearings and
convictions."
-- Gertrude Himmelfarb, John M. Ashbrook Memorial Dinner Address |
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"The great, large achievement of liberalism in the 20th century is the welfare State. And that achievement, today, makes additional liberalism virtually impossible. By 'additional liberalism' I mean more of the same -- energetic, high-spending, and high tax, redistributionist egalitarian government." -- George F. Will, John M. Ashbrook Memorial Dinner Address |
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"We must address ourselves to the fact that if we dare end discrimination against women, which means if we dare finally take women seriously as people...." -- Betty Friedan, Dare We Not Discriminate? |
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"Now, first I should define my terms: 'man' and 'God.' By man, of course, I mean society -- social man...." -- Timothy Leary, LSD: Methods of Control |
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