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• We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.

  Bella Abzug

  Gay, Men, Law

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• The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.

  John le Carre

  War, Mean, Government

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• I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

  Arthur Ashe

  Brother, Names, Black

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• Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Mean, Awards

  Aristotle (1857). “Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek”, p.12

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• Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Principles, Noise, Way

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• Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure.

  Billy Squier

  Romantic, Lips, Cures

  Song: You Know What I Like, Album: Don't Say No

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• 2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.

  Kevin Rudd

  Years, Australia, Government

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example.

  Randal Marlin

  Writing, Character, Emotional

  Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.39, Broadview Press

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• Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Effort, Political

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• I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

  Natalie Merchant

  Thinking, People, Diverse

  "Paradise is here: an interview with Natalie Merchant". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, livingoutli.org. April 19, 2016.

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• Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

  Billy Graham

  Selfish, Agency, People

  Billy Graham (2013). “The Reason for My Hope: Salvation”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.

  Erich Fromm

  People, Development, Our Society

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I think there's a longer shortlist for that particular position and others.Highly qualified men and women who have come to Bedminster, come to Trump Tower. People of different races and ethnicities. All political persuasions. People who have different backgrounds, public sector, private sector. Most of them will not be in the cabinet. Most of them are coming because they love the country and they want to share what their work on a particular issue or a particular success story has been.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Safety, Risk

  Jane Austen (1993). “Persuasion”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

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• Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, People, Effort

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The affluent society”

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• My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Jesus, Children, Suffering

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.262

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• Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing's for sure - he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.

  Bill Moyers

  Believe, Winning, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• [There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knives, Appreciate, Important

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.221, Psychology Press

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• Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

  Rudolf Hess

  Leader, Doe, Command

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• If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.

  Sam Harris

  Views, Political, Brain

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape”, p.191, Random House

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• Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.

  Barry Goldwater

  Tyrants, Law, Social

  Barry Goldwater (2010). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.27, Bottom of the Hill

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• Usually it's just material that resonates with me and I never know exactly what that's gonna be. And there's obviously a certain persuasion, if you will. It's dependent upon the fact that I'm known for certain genres. So, that influences my decision making as well. I mean I'd love to, for example, do an action thriller but there are a lot of very talented people doing that and so it would be very difficult for me to switch over to that genre. So, I do look for things that I know (will resonate with) my audience.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Mean, People, Decision

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day I’d get to rub all your faces in my sheer awesomeness.

  Susan Donovan

  Beautiful, Strong, Together

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• ...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.

  Wilkie Collins

  Mother, Vegetables, Mind

  Wilkie Collins (2016). “The Woman in White”, p.53, Wilkie Collins

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• The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as important as principles. Without principles, the language will fail.

  Frank Luntz

  Book, Passion, Persistence

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