Can you recognize these famous lines with the rhetoric taken out?
1. "Should I really live, or what? That’s the bottom line."
2. "What I’m sorry about is that I can’t die for my country two or three times, over and over."
3. "I’ll be back someday.."
4. "Ask what you can do to help your country, not the other way around."
5. "The earth wasn’t much of any-thing until God said, "Lights!" and the lights came on. "That good!" He said."
6. "It was the best time in history but it was sort of bad too."
Let’s face it, rhetoric’s not as "mere" as the politicians seem to think. The originals:
1. "To be or not to be, that is the question" – William Shakespear (Hamlet).
2. "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." – Nathan Hale.
3. "I Shall return." – Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
4. "Ask not what your country can do for you: ask what you can do for your country." – John F. Kennedy.
5. "And the earth was without form, and void…..And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good." –Genesis 1:2-4.
6. "It was the best of times =, it was the worst of times." –Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities).
