Tearing Modes

Famous quotes containing the words tearing and/or modes:

“Pray, let us live without being drawn by dogs, Esquimaux- fashion, tearing over hill and dale, and biting each other’s ears.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of the speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)