#convince

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. ↗

— John Strachan

#arrangement #attachment #cannot #colonies #commercial

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be. ↗

— Candice Swanepoel

#ballet dancer #convinced #dancer #growing #growing up

In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#beginning #contract #convince #every #every time

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#after #approval #control #convinces #cookie

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. ↗

— John Templeton

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I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to. ↗

— George Tenet

#against #alert #am #asian #attack

I am convinced that we are in a terminal process. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#convinced #i #i am #process #terminal

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#attention #beautiful #best #convinced #dwell

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

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