An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
We need somebody that can unify a country in spite of a vocal powerful media that's intent on division. It's not about… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
...and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
It may be something that future generations are more open to, but I am pretty confident that for the foreseeable future, using… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more… — Andrei Shleifer Copy Share Image
I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
How have you been? You’re still as beautiful as ever.” “As are you, my dear. I love your shoes.” “Aren’t they delightful?… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Word of mouth is more effective than traditional advertising for two key reasons. First, it’s more persuasive. Second, word of mouth is… — Jonah Berger Copy Share Image
Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the… — Diane Coyle Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
A monumental decision such as starting a family requires persuasive dissertations, licences, spreadsheets and field research. That's what I assumed until one… — Ryan Knighton Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. Before people making a buying decision, they have many questions. For… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think really the thing you should focus on is why you're for Ted Cruz, 'cause that's I think probably much more… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“It seems too simplistic that just repeating a persuasive message should increase its effect, but that’s exactly what psychological research finds (again… — Jeremy Bean Copy Share Image
The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society.” — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
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