#persuading

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?' ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

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I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations. ↗

— Pietro Mascagni

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You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

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There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. ↗

— Junius

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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. ↗

— Lucretius

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Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#common sense #concern #deceiving #eyes #interested

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? ↗

— Gilbert Highet

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