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• The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

  Rob Zombie

  People, Zombie, Want

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• The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

  Elihu Root

  Faith, Fall, People

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

  Grace Napolitano

  Past, Insomnia, President

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• The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us.

  Viktor Yanukovych

  Party, Responsibility, Victory

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• After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.

  Rick Danko

  Thinking, Helping, Should

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• Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

  Mary Astell

  Heart, Mind

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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• Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

  Mary Wigman

  Dance, Art, Strong

  Mary Wigman, Virginia Stewart (1935). “Modern dance”

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• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Anger

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

  Laurence Olivier

  Lying, Acting, Good Actors

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty.

  David Hume

  Morning, Night, Silence

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.339, 谷月社

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• Words are easy. It's convincing the heart that's hard.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Heart, Easy, Hard

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.238, Harlequin

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• Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  World, Talkers

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

  George Jean Nathan

  Men, Illusion, Notion

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Possibility

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• Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

  Barbara Mertz

  Lying, Men, Crisis

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• I’m still having trouble convincing Pax that underwear and pants go together – underwear is not pants!

  Angelina Jolie

  Together, Underwear, Pants

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• A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

  John Sununu

  Running, Winning, Effort

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• A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

  Jane Smiley

  Adventure, Together, Three

  Jane Smiley (2014). “A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

  Vikram Seth

  Character, Frustration, Peculiar

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• The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

  Tony Parsons

  Children, Growing Up, Fall

  "When is the right time to have a baby?" by Tony Parsons and Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2010.

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• One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Government, People, Care

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• Knock, knock. You have the day to hide. Come nightfall, we hunt. (Desiderius) Yeah, yeah...you and your little dog, too. (Kyrian) You're not scared of his threats? (Amanda) Chere, the day I fear something like him is the day I lie down at his feet and hand him the knife to cut my heart out. The only fear I have is getting you back to your sister and convincing High Queen Hard Head to leave off this matter until I can locate Desiderius and send his soul into oblivion where it belongs. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Queens, Lying

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• Now," said Halt, "all I have to do is work out a way of beating these horse-riding devils." Erak grinned at him. "That should be child's play," he said. "The hard part will be convincing Ragnak about it.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Children, Play

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• No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

  Aesop

  Giving, Coward, Matter

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.12, Penguin

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• Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

  Dean Koontz

  Reality, Often Can, Cheerful

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.103, Bantam

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