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• Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Yield, Sound

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• Violence is not the only means of persuasion.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Mean, Violence

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• Persuasion is not a science but an art

  William Bernbach

  Art, Great Advertising

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• You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Men, Years

  Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion: World Classics”, p.218, World Classic

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• Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Purpose, Secrecy

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• To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reason, Ends

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Liberty, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.299, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Real, Self Esteem

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book X, Chapter 38), circa 170.

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• In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspiration, Men, Ignorant

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• Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Justice, States

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Opposites, Would Be

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• Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Christmas, Integrity, Moving

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• None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Women, Equality, Water

  "Persuasion". Book by Jane Austen, www.theguardian.com. 1817.

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• Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Intuition, Criminal Mind, Speak

  "Fictional character: Aaron Hotchner". "Criminal Minds". Season 4, Episode 6: "The Instincts", www.imdb.com. November 05, 2008.

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• He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Needs, Want

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.

  Joan Armatrading

  Song: Love And Affection, Album: Joan Armatrading, 1976

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• Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

  Aesop

  Succeed, Failing, Force

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• Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

  Walter Cronkite

  Politics, Heavy, Knows

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• A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

  Homer

  Companion

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• The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Secret, Persons

  Harry Allen Overstreet (1925). “Influencing Human Behavior”

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• Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

  Robert McKee

  Slow Motion, Influence

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• Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pain, Reflection, Self

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• A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Effort, Enemy

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.311, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Guy, Tolerance

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