#convince

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. ↗

— George McGovern

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I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it. ↗

— Danica McKellar

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Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself. ↗

— Gustave Meyrink

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But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic. ↗

— Frank Miller

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Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live. ↗

— Joe Montana

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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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