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• White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples.

  Cornel West

  Order, White, People

  Cornel West (2000). “Race Matters”, p.85, Beacon Press

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• I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you, are much more convincing.

  Russell Freedman

  Book, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

  Roger Ebert

  Ideas, Mind, Desire

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.402, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.

  Amos Oz

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then they just run around getting crazy. The problem with writing a memoir, obviously, is you can't do that because you sort of know what's going to happen. Because you're the character.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Running, Crazy, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Fate, Ideas, Humanity

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• I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot of terrain psychically and temporally and linguistically via metaphor, and that can be a stand-in for an argument, whereas in prose, you have to make the argument, and you have to be convincing because the sequence must make sense in time and purpose.

  David Biespiel

  Thinking, Purpose, Argument

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That's not a convincing argument. Public sector jobs are cyclical. Teachers get fired when money is tight, then rehired when things get better. Manufacturing jobs, on the other hand, aren't coming back. They're relics of a past age.

  Hanna Rosin

  Teacher, Past, Get Better

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

  David Wong

  Life, Son, Devil

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.193, Titan Books

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• On Facebook, a lie can seem as convincing to some as an article from SPIEGEL or the Washington Post. That's a problem. I can then like it and like it again and start creating my own media universe, both for me and for my friends, and so we become more and more fenced off from one another.

  David Remnick

  Lying, Media, Creating

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Keys, Singing, Singers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Too bad. There's a party on the coast. I thought we could go." He actually sounded sincere. ( a bit after) I affected a yawn. "Well, like I said, it's a school night." In hopes of convincing myself more than him, I added, " if this party is something you'd be interested in, I can almost guarantee I won't be." There, I though. Case closed- page 77

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Party, School, Night

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• The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.

  Beck

  Song, Years, Play

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, Enough, Ends

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• Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reality, Order, Ideas

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.423, Penguin

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• ...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  World, Harder, Unfamiliar

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.615, Penguin

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• Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself--over and over--not to do it.

  Barry Lyga

  Grandmother, Imagination, Details

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• A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

  Karl Popper

  Crush, Successful, Men

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.557, Routledge

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• Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.

  Guy Debord

  Order, Organization, People

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• I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hurt, Fifteen, Next

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.144, Penguin

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• He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

  Jodi Picoult

  Convincing Yourself, Differences, Unhappy

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,” as her mother said, who never colored, gracefully or otherwise. (Convincing her mother that Christianity had, to all intents and purposes, originated with the Italians, thus making them the exact opposite of heathen, was a waste of time and breath.)

  Gail Carriger

  Mother, Opposites, Purpose

  "Soulless". Book by Gail Carriger, October 1, 2009.

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• There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.

  David Levithan

  Trying, Pieces, Gaps

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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• We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

  Neal Shusterman

  War, Lying, Believe

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• And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.

  Elizabeth Hay

  Belief, Ability, Wells

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