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• They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning.

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Years, Fifteen

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• I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Book, Theory Of Evolution, Dubious

  "Legalism and the Sins of the Church" by L. Roger Sockwell, Xulon Press, (p. 30, 2002.

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• Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter." Nico didn't look convinced. In fact he looked like he was going to be sick. But he squared his shoulders and nodded. "You're right. I- I'm not afraid of a love god." Favonius beamed. "Excellent! Would you like a snack before you go?

  Rick Riordan

  Snacks, Sick, Jason

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• You’re sleeping with an assassin, running for your life every single day from men who want to kill you and you’re convinced you’re going to die of discomfort.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Running, Sleep, Men

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• I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

  Fanny Fern

  Time, Done, Down And

  Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.42, The Floating Press

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• I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Daniel Morrow: "Advice for Future Entrepreneurs", americanhistory.si.edu. April 20, 1995.

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• People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, People, Motivational Business

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• Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.

  Louis L'Amour

  Change, Fighting, Growth

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Lonely Men”, p.90, Bantam

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• Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Nice, Angel

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

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• Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

  Laurens van der Post

  Freedom, Fear, Doubt

  The Lost World of the Kalahari ch. 3 (1958)

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• I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Civilization

  Letter to Henry Stephens Randall, May 23, 1857.

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• I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Freedom, People, Democracy

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• Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service... I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

  Barack Obama

  Graduation, Passion, Rushing

  President Barack Obama's remarks at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony in Columbia University, New York, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.

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• Leadership appears to be the art of getting others
  to want to do something you are convinced should be done

  Vance Packard

  Leadership, Art, Done

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• Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest good. He who loves has somehow discovered the meaning of ultimate reality. He who hates does not know God; he who hates has no knowledge of God. Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Hate, Reality

  Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, delivered 26 February 1965

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• There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Frustration, Self

  "The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety". Book by Alan Watts, 1951.

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• I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect
  the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

  Stephen Covey

  Marriage, Would Be, Neglect

  Stephen R. Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families”, p.2, St. Martin's Press

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• Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Powerful, Believe

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• We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Powerful, War

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• I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Political, Rags

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• Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Power, Men, Enough

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3522, Delphi Classics

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• I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Gun, Light

  James Clerk Maxwell (1995). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:”, p.203, CUP Archive

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• In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Science, Giving

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• If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Data, Support You

  "The Burden of Skepticism" by Carl Sagan, 1987.

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