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Letter "P" » persuading
«What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?»
Author: Gilbert Highet
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persuading
«So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.»
«ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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appears, color, eloquence, includes, orally, persuading, The Gift, white
«And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.»
«And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.»
«You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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«Business today consists in persuading crowds.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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Business Today, crowds, persuading
«He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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exceedingly, lofty, persuading, ripe, scholar, sought, sour, summer sweet
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