Convinced Quotes - Page 14

• I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Children, Book, Past

  E. L. Konigsburg (1995). “Talktalk: a children's book author speaks to grown-ups”, Atheneum Books

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• When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.

  Mark Steyn

  Winter, Numbers, Wonderland

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• We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true.

  Mark Boyle

  Opposites, Needs, Found

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Like most Israelis, I know very little about the Arabs. We just look down on them and see them as a threat. We have absolutely no experience with a democratic country in our vicinity. Is it good or bad for us? I am convinced that democracy isn't just good for the people in those countries, but for Israel as well.

  Tom Segev

  Country, Israel, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

  Heinrich von Pierer

  Successful, Honest, Behavior

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A Europe that qualifies its own values is not attractive in the eyes of Muslims. Europe must conduct itself as a strong partner, both intellectually and spiritually, and it must be convinced of its own advantages. This is the only way we will gain respect.

  Walter Kasper

  Strong, Eye, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In 23 years in newsrooms, I saw consistent and concerted efforts to get stories right. Clearly, the public's not convinced.

  Ken Paulson

  Years, Effort, Stories

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• As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Moving, Broken, Tree

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• I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and take is the law; and if India wants to raise herself once more, it is absolutely necessary that she brings out her treasures and throws them broadcast among the nations of the earth, and in return be ready to receive what others have to give her. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, and hatred is death. We commenced to die the day we began to hate other races; and nothing can prevent our death unless we come back to expansion, which is life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hate, Love Is, Race

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1759, Manonmani Publishers

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• From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.

  Janio Quadros

  Distance, People, Almighty

  "Brazil: One Man's Cup of Coffee", content.time.com. June 30, 1961.

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• Lots of really interesting people move to U.S and decide to work here, because of this whole attitude and openness. I'm absolutely convinced that this is just the beginning. In a couple decades we will see an even more dramatic change.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Couple, Attitude, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Writing, Weapons, Literature

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

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• The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Obstacles, Truth Is, Discovering

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• I am convinced that a multi-faceted dialogue between Russia and Egypt will continue to deepen and expand for the benefit of the peoples of our countries, for the sake of peace and stability in the Middle East and North Africa.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Peace, Russia

  "Putin visits Cairo amid ongoing chill in US-Egypt relations" by Paul Alster, www.foxnews.com. February 09, 2015.

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• I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

  Claude Debussy

  Color, Essence, Form

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• The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

  Jurgen E. Schrempp

  Home, Office, Church

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• Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

  Hugh Prather

  Passion, Arguing, Certain

  Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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• I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

  George Rickey

  Art, Men, Fellow Man

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• The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.

  Emma Goldman

  Wish, Spirit, Danger

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.80, 谷月社

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• ... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

  Jane Austen

  Attachment, Being Real, Unjust

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.157, Wild Jot Press

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• In the end, I'm convinced we will all benefit if suspicion is replaced by discussion, innuendo by dialogue; if the emphasis in our debate turns from a search for talismanic criteria and neat but simplistic answers to an honest - more intelligent - attempt at describing the role religion has in our public affairs, and the limits placed on that role.

  Mario Cuomo

  Intelligent, Answers, Benefits

  New York (State). Governor (1983- : Cuomo), Mario Matthew Cuomo (1989). “Public Papers of Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984”

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• You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.

  Karl Popper

  Men, Shooting, Rational

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.479, Routledge

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• I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can neither innovate nor even understand the self-evident proposition: 'No spatial structure can be a representation of any feeling'. Such innovation can only be a work of a non-spatial mind, like a human being, and only such innovation, it should be acknowledged, can pave the way for further scientific achievements.

  Kedar Joshi

  Smart, Intelligent, Self

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• The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere.

  Henry Adams

  Army, Sea, President

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• I have now played with both him (Cristiano Ronaldo) and Ronaldinho. And Ronaldo is top in Europe at the moment.
  Both of them in the same team would be like a bomb. It would be an incredible spectacle for the people.
  What's more, I am totally convinced the two are able to play in the same side.

  Henrik Larsson

  Team, Cristiano Ronaldo, Europe

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