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• What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.

  Trevor Noah

  Hate, Groups, Apartheid

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• Movie acting is harder than doing a play. You have to be entertaining but completely natural, like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. They weren't doing anything. Do you have any idea how hard that is? That's how good they were. It's crazy hard to be convincing and real. It's the most subtle, hardest thing there is.

  Jon Lovitz

  Real, Crazy, Play

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• Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Science, Giving, Departure

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• The greatest trick the rich - and their cheerleaders on the right - ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn't exist. Out here in the real world, it is more real and more rigid than it has been for a century.

  Johann Hari

  Real, Class, World

  "Britain - a caste society?". JohannHari.com, January 29, 2006.

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• Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge assumes the binding force of apodictic faith.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Emotional, Ideas

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• The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its properties, or interrelations between various objects. The goal of a proof is to make such a statement convincing by presenting a reasoning subdivided into small steps each of which is justified as an "elementary" convincing argument.

  IU?. I. Manin

  Goal, Definitions, Steps

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• The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

  John Lasseter

  Reality, Looks, Littles

  "PR Interviews with 'Bolt' Co-Directors and Exec. Producer John Lasseter". Interview with Ed Liu, www.toonzone.net. March 25, 2009.

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• The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, World, Sometimes

  "Exclusive Interview: Neil Gaiman on The Weird". WeirdFictionReview.com Interview, weirdfictionreview.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.

  Sean Parker

  Crazy, Ideas, People

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• Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.

  Patrick Dixon

  People, Giving, Reason

  Patrick Dixon (2005). “Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation”, p.31, Profile Books

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• Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more certain common good than can be attained by bombs and blood. Nonviolence, ideally speaking, does not try to overcome the adversary by winning over [them], but to turn [them] from an adversary into a collaborator by winning [them] over.

  Thomas Merton

  Winning, Blood, Trying

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.192, Macmillan

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• Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Faith, Religious, Thinking

  "An Atheist Responds" by Christopher Hitchens, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2007.

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• The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Moral, Kind, Enough

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• It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.

  Eban Goodstein

  Doors, Energy, Climate

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• I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Winning, Majority, Succeed

  "Socialist Francois Hollande defeats Nicolas Sarkozy in French presidential election", www.foxnews.com. May 6, 2012.

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• The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Issues, Survival

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• Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

  Shane Claiborne

  Prayer, Want, Want U

  Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2009). “Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals”, p.11, InterVarsity Press

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• The CIA has a plot...they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem...is convincing Hussein...to fly to Dallas.

  Bill Hicks

  Leader, Dallas, Plot

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• Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence, to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite. If you like intriguing ideas delivered in an exciting plot, this is your meat.

  Gregory Benford

  Cutting, Ideas, People

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• Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only just Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be informed.

  Anthony Collins

  Men, Self, Atheism

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• The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence.

  James T. Shotwell

  Spiritual, Sheep, Rocks

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• Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is a mark of virtue. Pain becomes the inignia of morality - and conversely, pleasure becomes the insignia of immorality. Christianity, therefore, does not say, "Go forth and be miserable." Rather, it says, "Go forth and practice the virtue of self-sacrifice." In practical terms, these commands are identical.

  George H. Smith

  Pain, Sacrifice, Practice

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• Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

  Michael Wilbon

  Sports, Believe, Executives

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon: Olympics, Wizards, NBA, college basketball and more". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

  Warren Farrell

  Feminism, Males, Female

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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