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A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. ↗

— John McCarthy

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Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side. ↗

— John McCarthy

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I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American. ↗

— George McGovern

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

— George McGovern

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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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Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

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I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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