Memorizing the Iliad teaches how to make a great speech because it trains impact, memorability, and the capacity to impress oneself onto others.
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Impact
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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He argues that even if a Chinese term could be invented to capture the essence of empathy, the coined word would still lack the accumulated meaning and impact the English term already has.
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"...understood that for me to make a great speech, I have impact. I need people to remember what I say. I need to put..."
"...essence of it, it still wouldn't have the meaning and the impact that, that the word has in, um, is in English language. Uh,..."
"...she remembers me and obviously the course had a huge huge impact on her and i asked her so ivy uh what are you..."
"...they have the most vibrant imagination they can have the most impact in the co -creation process okay so it's not as simple as..."
"...ad, okay, you said very clearly, we mortals cannot at all impact the decision of the gods. We have absolutely no say in this..."
"...Ennead, which is the Bible, right? Um, we cannot at all impact the decision of the heavens and here in purgatory, we're seeing clearly..."
"...always be certain about who you are and like what your impact on the world right and be uh be imaginative right"
"Great. Okay. So we've established what art is and what the impact of art is on you. But now we want to figure out..."
"...feel good about themselves and they really don't care about the impact on society um so so if you look at today yes there..."
"...own pleasure my own happiness and i really don't care the impact on society okay that doesn't make sense guys all right so so..."
"...that Jesus would be able to have as big of an impact as possible."
"...have to believe that you do matter and whatever you do impacts the universe that's why people like rachel roof beatrice rebecca are next..."
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