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Tag Name "Persuades" (32)

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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.
Voltaire
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With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.
Akif Pirincci
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We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.
Brennan Manning
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When I go to a show, all I really want is to hear a performance that sounds legitimate, and not just going through the motions. I'm not sure any amount of jumping up and down really persuades me in either direction.
Dan Bejar
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No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades it only makes hypocrites.
Francois Fenelon
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Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
John Henry Newman
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Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary's new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills.
Jorie Graham
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Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.
Lucian
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A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be
Mario Vargas Llosa
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
Michel de Montaigne
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The state dictates and coerces religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be the force of religion is love and benevolence.
Moses Mendelssohn
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Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.
Ovid
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Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good or ill. But it should not be a powerful weapon at all.
Richard Dawkins
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Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own
Rollo May
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The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.
Samuel Johnson
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Tertullian
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The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
William Shakespeare
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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
Anita Roddick
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Technology creates the context for persuasion, but content persuades. Technology helps get content to the right people at the right time. The content still has to influence. Delivering the wrong content at the right time is as bad as delivering the right content at the wrong time.
Colleen Jones
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When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Euripides
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The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
Helen Vendler
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
John Maynard Keynes
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The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
Laurence Olivier
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There is a theory, that I rather subscribe to. The frame story implies that if he doesn't change, she will kill him. It's all very complex and subtle. The story is about a woman who persuades a man in power to a different temper and attitude, and so it is about women's wiles, what women will get up to. She has a plan, she has a scheme.
Marina Warner
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