{"quotes":[{"text":"You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["animal","arrogance","be yourself","chase","circle","consideration","dog","ego","help","helping-others","narcissism","others","pet","pride","pursue","rhetorical","self","selfish","selflessness","serve","serving-others"],"id":764,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?","author":"Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel","tags":["third","rhetorical","which "],"id":203130,"author_id":"Karl+Wilhelm+Friedrich+Schlegel"},{"text":"God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","arrogance","ego","faith","god","gossip","humility","hypocrisy","judging","knowledge","libel","love","meditation","not-knowing","philosophy","pray","prayer","praying","pride","propaganda","question","questions","relationship","relationship-with-god","religion","respect","reverence","rhetorical","rhetorical-question","science","seeking","self-righteousness","sincerity","slander","spirituality","theology","truth","wisdom"],"id":280009,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["actions","actions-over-words","actions-speak-louder-than-words","answers","arrogance","belief","coach","credibility","development","discipline","experience","facts","humility","hypocrisy","inspirational","learning","life","life-coach","living","motivational","narcissism","obedience","player","preaching","pride","questions","reliability","rhetorical","sports","teaching","understanding"],"id":345122,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agenda","apologetics","atrocities","belief","bias","biases","blame","confusion","crime","denial","dream","free-will","god","hypocrisy","imprisonment","mother","rhetorical","scrutiny","self-interest","skepticism","son","uncertainty"],"id":375643,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Well,' a female voice said. 'What have we here?'Here,' Bethany said, responding to the woman's rhetorical question, 'we have a teenager. And she's pissed.","author":"Jennifer Lynn Barnes","tags":["pissed","rhetorical","teen"],"id":398248,"author_id":"Jennifer+Lynn+Barnes"},{"text":"...If Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and generational opportunity. In 1960, the articulate Adlai Stevenson compared his own oratory unfavorably with John F. Kennedy's. 'Do you remember,' Stevenson said, 'that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke,' but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, 'Let us march.' ' At this hour, Obama is the Democrats' Demosthenes.","author":"E.J. Dionne Jr.","tags":["newspaper","political","rhetorical","washington-post"],"id":449154,"author_id":"E.J.+Dionne+Jr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}