Best Persuaded Sayings
197 Persuaded quotes by 161 unique authors
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I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that…
— Archimedes
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I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
— William Morris Hunt
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My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes…
— Elizabeth I
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Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
— John Calvin
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If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I…
— Robert Walpole
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It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be, who cannot be…
— Bartolome de las Casas
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I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if…
— Tony Hoare
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I’m Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of the Roe vs. Wade decision that brought ‘legal’ child killing to America. I was persuaded by feminist…
— Norma McCorvey
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It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a…
— David Horowitz
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For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead…
— Unknown Author
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Do you not know that you are Eve? The judgment of God upon this sex lives on in this age; therefore, necessarily the guilt should…
— Tertullian
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I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe in God, and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could…
— Fritz Stern
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Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be looking for company.…
— Peter Mayle
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Good analysts and therapists can help us to recognize parts of ourselves we have repressed and denied. The shamanic concept of soul loss reaches further.…
— Robert Moss
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The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute…
— Unknown Author
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I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in…
— John Ruskin
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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree…
— Mark Twain
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Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity,…
— George Washington
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I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned as the Lord…
— J. Reuben Clark
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If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be…
— Mark Twain
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If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to…
— William Kristol
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I remain persuaded of the inevitable and necessary complementarity of man and woman. Love, imperfect as it may be in its content and expression, remains…
— Mariama Bâ
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I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am…
— Socrates
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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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