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If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have… — Isaac Asimov
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity… — Eudora Welty
How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it?… — Harold Bloom
Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one. — Gregory Maguire
How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the… — Emile M. Cioran
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to… — E L Doctorow
You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips. — Scott Westerfeld
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had… — Raoul Vaneigem
The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why… — Christopher Isherwood
When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake. — Saul Bellow
I know, now, without a doubt that the true source of happiness, self-worth, and authentic beauty doesn't come from the outside. Women are constantly being… — Stephanie Nielson
He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had… — Horace Walpole
A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it… — George Eliot
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary.… — Camille Paglia
People are more willing to buy branded goods provided they are persuaded that they are getting value from them. And they need to be convinced… — Andrew Curry
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise… — William Kingdon Clifford
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining… — Samuel Johnson
There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be… — Francois Fenelon
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting… — Glenn Greenwald
I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded… — Bobby Wallace
Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated. — Aristotle
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I… — Michael Cadnum
I thought I was the wrong shape: that Miss Marple would be much fluffier than me, much more wearing shawls and things. But I was… — Joan Hickson
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the… — Louis Pasteur

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