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• What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Two, People, Happens

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• If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Conviction, Convincing, Convince

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.65, Oxford University Press

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• I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

  Pete Seeger

  Situations In Life, Color, Political

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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• You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Pregnancy

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen on Love and Romance”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

  Jane Austen

  Men, His Love, Forget

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.426

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• You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

  Jane Austen

  Agony, Soul, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1372, Wordsworth Editions

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• Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

  Jane Austen

  Unjust, May, Weak

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1580, Ageless Reads

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• For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

  Janet Frame

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Liberty, Economics

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.38, Penguin

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• Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.

  Joseph Campbell

  Communication, Artist, Space

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• No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim the right to force the minds of others. No rational society, no co-operation, no agreement, no understanding, no discussion are possible among men who propose to substitute guns for rational persuasion.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Men, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.48, Penguin

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• The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

  John Stott

  Christian, Humble, Hands

  John R. W. Stott (1985). “Involvement: Social and sexual relationships in the modern world”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

  Alfred Nobel

  Love, Heart, Stomach

  "Nobel Laureates, 1901-2000". Book by Alan Symons (p.1), 2000.

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• Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more than persuasion.

  Dan Mathews

  Frustration, Differences, People

  "Senior VP of PETA Dan Mathews: On gay rights, empathy for animals, and getting married under the Las Vegas sign". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was nice, and sadly, it is so rare.

  Ellen Page

  Nice, Woods, Thirteen

  Source: collider.com

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• The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.

  Mao Zedong

  Issues, People, Criticism

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• India is this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasions working together, seeking their salvation in the framework of a democracy. I believe it will have some lessons for all the multicultural societies.

  Manmohan Singh

  Believe, Multicultural Society, People

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• Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.

  Shiv Khera

  Motivational Sales, Selling, Conviction

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• To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the power or Spirit of God to act, speak, or think what is holy, justand true; [Enthusiasm is] A Full, but false persuasion in a man that he is inspired.

  Henry More

  Truth, Men, Thinking

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• Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clever, Winning, People

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• Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, Thinking, Race

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.504, Courier Corporation

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• To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places more emphasis on the Holy Scriptures which never change, while his opposite number (as the newspapers say) tends to judge his spiritual condition by the state of his feelings, which change constantly. This may be the reason that so many Calvinistic churches remain orthodox for centuries, at least in doctrine, while many churches of the Arminian persuasion often go liberal in one generation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Numbers, Squares

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• A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Good Day, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.278, BookCaps Study Guides

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• All of which raises the question – your task, burden, privilege, call it what you like – a question which men and women, great and not-so of every color, creed and sexual persuasion have asked since they first had the language to do so, and probably before: Does Anything I Do Matter?

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Men, Color, Doe

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• Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose.

  Christopher Moore

  Girl, Mean, Awkward

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