#convinced

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

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I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

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My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running. ↗

— Martin Lel

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The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

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Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject. ↗

— John Henry Patterson

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