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• Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are insightful, profound, and convincing, but fair. On Gaia is wonderfully informative and a pleasure to read.

  Francisco J. Ayala

  Profound, Insightful, Criticism

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• What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.

  Patrick Stewart

  Kings, People, Trying

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• I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of seventy paragraphs, but only the last nine referred to the World Trade Center, and they were not convincing. So we have a little problem here: If they're guilty, where is the evidence? And if we can't hear the evidence, why are we going to war?

  Robert Fisk

  War, World, Littles

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 1, 2001.

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• Dealing with politically-engaged writers of color like Abdellatif Laâbi and Rashid Boudjedra - who ran away from school aged sixteen to fight against the French in the Algerian war - first requires convincing an editor to take a chance on them, which very few like to do these days.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  War, School, Fighting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.

  Dolores Huerta

  Doors, Talking, People

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world, and every major character who lives there. I'm not suggesting that one always has to go this far. But I truly believe what makes the setting for my novels come alive is that I've lived there first.

  Richard North Patterson

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Why don't you trust women to make this choice for themselves? We can encourage people to support life. Of course we can. But why don't you trust women? Why doesn't Donald Trump trust women to make this choice for themselves? That's what we ought to be doing in public life. Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitement, convincing other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues of the day but on fundamental issues of morality, we should let women make their own decisions.

  Tim Kaine

  Motivation, People, Choices

  "Expanding the Debate: Green Ajamu Baraka “Debates” Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special–Part 1". www.democracynow.org. October 5, 2016.

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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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• We twist ourselves into knots convincing people that Islam is peaceful and varied before we realize that, wait a second, you can be a Muslim while also recognizing that Islam doesn't even explain half of your behaviors!

  Negin Farsad

  People, Waiting, Peaceful

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• 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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• Just through the process of trying to make the living and the dead feel real, all these little benefits came out. And these benefits turned out to be much more articulate statements of what I really believe. And somehow they were more convincing because they were arrived at at such length.

  George Saunders

  Real, Believe, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn't been convincing. They'd been somewhat like her table - quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of thing was running out, however. She was tired of renting.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Running, Tired

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• I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Educational, Long

  "Mark Twain’s Comedy Classics". 190+ Stories & Sketches,

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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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• I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling a story you need a background. Just like a novelist needs background information to make a story interesting, I think an artist needs it for a picture too.

  Edward Sorel

  Artist, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

  John Ashbery

  Beautiful, Darkness, Fruit

  "Scoundrel Time, a fantastic new journal created by Paula Whyman and Mikhail Iossel for resistence and education in the Age of Trump". Interview with Caroline Leavitt, www.goodreads.com. January 20, 2017.

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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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• A lot of shows where I'm playing a senator or a congressman or a doctor or a high-priced attorney, I do a number on myself. "I am a powerful attorney, or a doctor." It's a little convincing job I do on myself first to know I can walk out on the set and know that I can be this guy.

  Ray Wise

  Powerful, Guy, Attorney

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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