If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“ 'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-'… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive.… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Stories are one of the most powerful forces of persuasion available to us, especially stories that fit in with our view of… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“When the law regulates behavior it plays an indirect part in molding public sentiment. The enforcement of the law is itself a… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Wearing a cloak is on Rose's list of the thousand things she hates most. The problem is that each of the thousand… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When we speak our words to God with thanksgiving and release them with the faith that our requests will be granted, we… — Donna Fargo Copy Share Image
[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Now, it's high time for all those that have an influence on the parties with the conflict to understand that it is… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Once upon a Lammas Night When corn rigs are bonny, Beneath the Moon's unclouded light, I held awhile to Annie... The time… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education,… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
A worried person sees the problem in every thing and a concerned person solves the problem. Worry is the worst enemy of… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture,… — Joan Of Arc Copy Share Image
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I… — William Laud Copy Share Image
For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
“Persuasion may play a part in a man's conversion; but only the part of bringing to its full and conscious climax a… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so.… — Roger Gale Copy Share Image
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience,… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Jefferson style – cultivate his elders, make himself pleasant to his contemporaries, and used his pen and his intellect to shape… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
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