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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. — Blaise Pascal
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than… — Alan Rickman
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. — Robert Southey
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of… — Laurence Sterne
Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few… — James Surowiecki
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy.… — George Washington
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. — George Washington
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and… — George Washington
. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is… — Louisa May Alcott
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it. — Jane Austen
Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for… — Marcus Aurelius
You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously. — Tristan Tzara
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the… — Mark Twain
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. — Kay Redfield Jamison
Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not… — Charles Spurgeon
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism… — Jonathan Franzen
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's… — Thomas Jefferson
Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to… — Sam Harris
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the… — Leo Tolstoy
So would you like to join me for something to eat? (Jericho) As long as it doesn’t involve the entrails of demons, I might be… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the… — Jane Austen
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way… — Mark Twain
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil… — Jeff Cooper
...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded… — John Boyne

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