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I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer. — Leland Stanford
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology,… — Martin Luther
If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it. — Danny Boyle
Don't try and change things for other people. Don't try and be persuaded by producers and people to change your vision. If you stick to… — Lynne Ramsay
Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with… — William Kristol
Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and… — James E. Faust
Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be… — Eudora Welty
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in… — Wyndham Lewis
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led. — Eric Hoffer
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor… — Eric Hoffer
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines… — Samuel Johnson
I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend… — Joshua Reynolds
I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare… — Lee Kuan Yew
For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have… — Quintus Curtius Rufus
You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded — Minnie Maddern Fiske
Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at… — Alphonse de Lamartine
The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else;… — George Bernard Shaw
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a… — John Kenneth Galbraith
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very… — Joanne Harris
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it. — James Russell Lowell
In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand. — John C. Maxwell

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