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«I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.»
«Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
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Leadership
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«Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.»
Author: John Ciardi
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Art
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«No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.»
«I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
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God
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«I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.»
«Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.»
«My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.»
«Laws do not persuade because they threaten»
«Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish»
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