“ Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. ”
- Homer- Copy
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“ Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. ”
- Lao tzu- Copy
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“ To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful. ”
- Hellmut Walters- Copy
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“ It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past. ”
- William Hastie- Copy
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“ When I talked, no one listened to me. But as soon as I acted I became persuasive, and I no longer find anyone incredulous. ”
- Giosue Borsi- Copy
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“ Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ Together, we can be twice as effective, twice as efficient, and twice as persuasive in helping solve this nation's serious social problems through community service. ”
- Richard F. Schubert- Copy
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“ There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe. ”
- Gordon B. Hinckley- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful. ”
- Edward R. Murrow- Copy
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“ I've been over what I'm supposed to say and I've got to tell you, it's pretty persuasive stuff, but is it the whole truth? It's a slice of truth, a morsel, a fraction. It's a piece of the pie, certainly not the whole enchilada, and now that I've been thinking about it, I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything… ”
- Jeff Melvoin- Copy
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“ I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
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“ While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is not constrained by geography - it can be accomplished in a number of different ways - which is what makes this threat so real and persuasive. ”
- Senator Dianne Feinstein- Copy
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“ We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima… ”
- Howard Zinn- Copy
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“ There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: "Where was I before I was born." In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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