#convince

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

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We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

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To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. ↗

— Vance Packard

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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it. ↗

— Asa Gray

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Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous. ↗

— Maimonides

#convinced #end #man #preparatory #reach

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star. ↗

— Frances McDormand

#easily #i #i can #movie #movie star