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• I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is… — John Berger
• Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift… — Ambrose Bierce
• So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. — Lucretius
• The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the… — Benjamin Rush
• The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for… — Bartolome de las Casas
• A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their… — Kevin Mattson
• Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some… — Richard Dawkins
• I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without… — Harry S. Truman
• Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places.… — Gautama Buddha
• I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates
• What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? — Gilbert Highet
• Gold is a deep-persuading orator. — Richard Barnfield

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