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You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into. — Ben Goldacre
...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered… — Wilkie Collins
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. — Jane Austen
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. — Zig Ziglar
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to… — Jane Austen
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
Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest. — Jeaniene Frost
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. — John Ruskin
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. — Joseph Conrad
We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire (if I may… — Amy Carmichael
By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair.… — H.G. Wells
I have studied many religions, many different persuasions of thought in Christian belief, and I have come, in this experience to this: the most important… — Dale Evans
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion. — Thomas Jefferson
For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is… — Niccolo Machiavelli
All of which raises the question – your task, burden, privilege, call it what you like – a question which men and women, great and… — Ron Currie Jr.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for… — Jane Austen
If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to… — Sam Harris
Past persons of Scottishness in contact with mastermind of supernatural persuasion in London, aka Agent Doom.’ Floote moved on to the third bit of paper.… — Gail Carriger
Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose. — Christopher Moore
My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up. - Charley Davidson — Darynda Jones
Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its… — Theodor Adorno
Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and persuasion… — Raymond Rubicam
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true… — Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means - by… — Leo Tolstoy
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity… — Leo Tolstoy

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