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• What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

  Lucian Freud

  Painting, Seducing, Asks

  National Gallery (Great Britain), Lucian Freud (1987). “The artist's eye: Lucian Freud : an exhibition of National Gallery Paintings selected by the artist 17 June - 16 August 1987”

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• The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse - to challenge others to form free opinions.

  Karl Popper

  Free Opinion, Challenges, Intellectual

  "On Freedom (All Life is Problem Solving)". Essay by Karl Popper, translated by Patrick Camiller, 1994.

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• My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Limits, Intention, Methodology

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.23, Verso

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• Teenagers also sometimes think, 'What's the use? The world will soon be blown all apart and come to an end.' That feeling comes from fear, not from faith. No one knows the hour or the day (see D&C 49:7), but the end cannot come until all of the purposes of the Lord are fulfilled. Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Teenager, Thinking, Long

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• It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it.

  Steve Wozniak

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

  George Grosz

  Art, Mean, Imperfect World

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• I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Mind, Trying, Sugar

  "The New Moon's Arms". Book by Nalo Hopkinson, 2007.

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• I don't know what else I can say. I have never taken steroids. For people who think I took steroids intentionally, I'm never going to convince them. But I hope the voters judge my career fairly and don't look at one mistake.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Mistake, Taken, Thinking

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• In Europe one needs to act ‘as if’ – as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty … The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge.

  Giuliano Amato

  Government, Order, Europe

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• For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

  Tammy Bruce

  Beautiful, People, Goal

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.55, Crown Forum

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• Sovereignty was not an issue in this campaign. The sovereignty numbers that were there before the campaign are still there. Sovereignty is as alive as it was. But there is work to do to convince Quebecers.

  Pauline Marois

  Numbers, Issues, Campaigns

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• My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season.

  Tom Osborne

  Jobs, Hardest Job, People

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• ...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Years, Nuclear Disarmament, Race

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• You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting. You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. You have to have a good idea. You have to convince other people of those good ideas. And you have to push as quickly as possible.

  Jack Dorsey

  Impact, Ideas, People

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• I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

  Albert Einstein

  Years, Trying, Statistics

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• It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of Christianity except the Holy Spirit, by his own almighty work of renewing the blinded heart. It is the sovereign prerogative of Christ's Spirit to convince men's consciences of the truth of Christ's gospel; and Christ's human witnesses must learn to ground their hopes of success not on clever presentation of the truth by man, but on powerful demonstration of the truth by the Spirit.

  J. I. Packer

  Powerful, Clever, Heart

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.70, InterVarsity Press

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• We cannot convince a man to believe any more than we can raise the dead. Such things are the work of God's Spirit. Men are brought to faith only through the supernatural working of God, and He has promised to work-not through human wisdom or intellectual expertise, but through the preaching of Christ crucified and resurrected from the dead!

  Paul Washer

  Believe, Men, Intellectual

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• My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Convince Us, Majority, Path

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2014.

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• There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.

  Charles Duhigg

  Powerful, People, Community

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.85, Random House

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• Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Teaching, Writing, People

  "Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete?". Interview with Ross Andersen, www.theatlantic.com. April 23, 2012.

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• I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Men, Doubt

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• Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world, and each other, they're relevant.

  Trent Reznor

  Weekend, Media, Trying

  "Echo Chamber: Trent Reznor" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2010.

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• I remember the special quiet of rainy days
  when I felt that I could enter the pages
  of my beautiful picture books.
  Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing
  that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists.
  The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope
  others as well, that such places might be real.

  Jan Brett

  Beautiful, Real, Book

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• The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

  Jan Brett

  Real, Details, Might

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• I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted. I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it'.

  Gabe Newell

  Sorry, Thinking, People

  "Internet news gatherers savour PS3 gloom" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2007.

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