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• America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. Not only because there are more mixes of people, but because people are more open-minded about each other. So I think in the future, America has a great, great opportunity, and mostly because of hip-hop.

  Russell Simmons

  Opportunity, Thinking, Race

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• A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Single, Gratitude, Heart

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.12, Paulist Press

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• No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.

  Robert Mueller

  Optimistic, Optimism, Able

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• A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.

  Curt Goetz

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Brain

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• They have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the cause, till the trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in the making of Sciences: for whoever has fix'd on his Cause, before he has experimented; can hardly avoid fitting his Experiment, and his Observations, to his Own Cause, which he had before imagin'd; rather than the Cause to the Truth of the Experiment itself. Referring to experiments of the Aristotelian mode, whereby a preconceived truth would be illustrated merely to convince people of the validity of the original thought.

  Thomas Sprat

  Truth, Science, Past

  "The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge".

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• Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

  Sting

  Children, Blow, Winning

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• To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

  Sam Smith

  Fear, Men, Psychics

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• I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince.

  David Krumholtz

  Daughter, Mother, Hair

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

  Alan Bullock

  Integrity, Patriotic, Firsts

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• Love as much as you can from wherever you are. This line is especially good to recall when you feel frightened, crazy, or have taken some bad dope. Write it on the wall of your room. You may not want to love what you feel or see, you may not be able to convince yourself that you could love it at all. But just decide to love it. Say out loud that you love it, even if you don't believe it. And say, "I love myself for hating this."

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Wall, Hate

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• Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and selfrespect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Spiritual, Animal, Men

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• Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never knew we had. Navigating through a difficult episode not only shows us that inner strength is there but convinces us it will always be there to serve us in the future. Overcoming gives us an assurance of personal confidence and value that far exceeds what we thought we possessed before our struggles began.

  Dennis Wholey

  Spiritual, Struggle, Discovery

  Dennis Wholey (1992). “When the worst that can happen already has: conquering life's most difficult times”, Hyperion Books

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• Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

  Mark Twain

  Health, Imagination, Disease

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Sacrifice, Dedication

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• Europe cannot solve this alone. We need stronger U.S. activity on the climate change issue if we are going to move forward. We are trying to do what we can to convince them to be more active on this.

  Anders Borg

  Moving, Europe, Issues

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• The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Time, Writing, People

  "Writing a new Philip Marlowe: a question of dialogue, attitude and style" by John Banville, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2015.

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• Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Errors, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson, Martin Alfred Larson (1981). “Jefferson, magnificent populist”, Devin-Adair Pub

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• You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

  Hans Hofmann

  Crafts, Painting, Reason

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• No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. ... The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Heart, Character

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• One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim is to penalize anti-social acts; actually their aim is to penalize heretical opinions. At least ninety-five Americans out of every 100 believe that this process is honest and even laudable; it is practically impossible to convince them that there is anything evil in it. In other words, they cannot grasp the concept of liberty.

  H. L. Mencken

  Business, Believe, Law

  "Liberty and Democracy". Baltimore Evening Sun (April 13, 1925) as quoted in "A Second Mencken Chrestomathy: A New Selection from the Writings of America's Legendary Editor, Critic, and Wit" edited by Terry Teachout (p. 35), 1994.

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• Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Business, Intelligent

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Voice, Giving

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• There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by commercial firms that profit by supplying laboratory animals and equipment, have been able to convince legislators and the public that opposition comes from uninformed fanatics who consider the interests of animals more important than the interests of human beings.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Long, Important

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• Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Outcomes, Violence, Belief

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.78, A&C Black

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• What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and an ability to convince them that what they are being taught is deadly serious

  Joseph Epstein

  Teacher, Teaching, Satisfaction

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