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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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• No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies.

  Joel Sternfeld

  Photography, Jobs, Lying

  "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

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• It was an important part of Mendelssohn's philosophical and religious view that the traditional rationalist proofs for God's existence should be sound an convincing. Kant thought they were not. So Kant's critique was world-shaking for Mendelssohn.

  Allen W. Wood

  Religious, Philosophical, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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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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• I find that as a female boss in the music industry, it's difficult to actually be treated as if you actually are the boss and to have people act on your instructions and take you seriously. Like you call up people who are working for you and say, "I'd like to see such-and-such document," and they tell you that you don't need it. Then you have to spend time convincing them that it doesn't matter whether they think you need it or not, they're supposed to hand it to you.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while convincing ourselves that we are in fact moving toward what Churchill called the "broad, sun-lit uplands."

  Jon Meacham

  Art, Moving, America

  "Book World Live: Jon Meacham Discusses His Acclaimed Andrew Jackson Biography 'American Lion' with Readers". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. December 16, 2008.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Believe

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Specials”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• Still, small heavenly voices penetrate the heart with their gentle, convincing declarations… Most often, hope, encouragement, and direction come from a soft, piercing voice. Small voices are heard only by those who are willing to listen.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Encouragement, Heart, Voice

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.

  Suzanne Collins

  Said, Haymitch

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games”, p.232, Scholastic

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• And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.

  Douglas Adams

  Two, Long, Interesting

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.62, Del Rey

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• A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.

  Benjamin Graham

  Real, Loss, Sound

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 25, 1949.

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• Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love Is, Years, Practice

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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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• Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one would suffice.

  Marcel Conche

  Giving, Argument, Proof

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• What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things like the opinion is now convincing, now can we make it more instructive, after he'd gone through ten drafts.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Writing, Saws, Tools

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.

  Miranda July

  Dream, Ends, Middle

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.5, Canongate Books

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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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• 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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