The Quality of a Political Speech Is a Symptom of Popularity Not a Cause
Spectator, The; London › August 21, 2009
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Tony Blair did not sound passionately sincere because he was passionately sincere. He mastered the knack of delivering his lines with such passionate sincerity that he became spellbound by his own performance, and believed in it.
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The Quality of a Political Speech Is a Symptom of Popularity Not a Cause
Epiphenomenalism is, as 16-letter words go, not an obvious hook with which, dear reader, to draw you to this column; but let me explain; because I think I may be an epiphenomenalist.
My dictionary defines this as the doctrine that consciousness is merely a by-product of physiological processes and has no power to affect them: that we do ...See the full content of this document
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