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• You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Grandchildren, Reflection, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.45, Xist Publishing

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• A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Fall, Age

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• I have a mouse, but don't have a mouse driver for MINIX and have never felt the need to write one. Typing "rm x y z" is a lot faster than clicking five times and then having to convince the system that you really, truly, mean it and this is not a mistake and that you are consenting adult over 18 and that you completely understand the consequences and you still want to do it.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Mistake, Writing, Mean

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• Everything that I'm seeing in America, when it comes to the groundwater contamination and the poisoning of people I see, it's a moral issue. Nobody's ever gonna convince me that a CEO wouldn't care if his own child was poisoned.

  Erin Brockovich

  Children, America, Issues

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a good person.

  Abdellah Taia

  People, Trying, Waste

  "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

  Alicia Keys

  Rap, Gangsta, People

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• A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, People, Trying

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• Stay simple and true to your gut. If you feel uncomfortable in something, no matter how fashion-forward it is, it's going to look funny. At the end of the day, I don't think it really matters what you're wearing, because if you shine through in that confidence, you really can convince anybody that what you're wearing is great...as long as it doesn't have too many sparkles!

  Analeigh Tipton

  Fashion, Thinking, Simple

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Not to let anyone convince you that your dream, your vision to be an entrepreneur is something that you shouldn't do. What often happens is that people who are well meaning, who really care for us are afraid for us and talk us out of it.

  Cathy Hughes

  Dream, People, Entrepreneur

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• Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Night, Gnats, Trying

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• The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

  Pablo Picasso

  Lying, Artist, Truthfulness

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly.

  Bill McCartney

  Player, Play, Reason

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• Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Political, Soul, Mind

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• Nothing will convince and convict those around us like the peaceful and positive way you and I respond to our twentieth century hurts and distress. The unbelieving world-your neighbors, the guy at the gas station, the postman, the lady at the cleaners, your boss at work-is observing the way we undergo our trials.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Guy, Boss

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• The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Trying

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2697, Delphi Classics

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• I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.

  George Orwell

  Years, Opposites, Civilization

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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• I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

  Andy Garcia

  Moving, Trying, Want

  "Andy Garcia talks about his epic role in 'For Greater Glory'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. May, 2012.

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• When you're young, you want to convince everyone that you're right and they're wrong. As you get older, it's not important if you are right or wrong, it's important that you work together with other people and get something done.

  Gino Vannelli

  People, Working Together, Important

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• A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

  George Washington

  Men, Example, World

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.365

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• Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

  Blaise Pascal

  Imagination, Needs, World

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn`t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was.

  Clint Eastwood

  Cowboy, People, Gears

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What convinces is conviction.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Conviction

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• There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.

  Bill Gates

  People, Trying, Way

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• Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don't care either way to join the 33% who love you

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Love You, Care

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• What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.

  Richard Lindzen

  Powerful, Special, World

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