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It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. ↗

— Dean Inge

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The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me. ↗

— Tori Amos

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I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done. ↗

— Alan Cranston

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I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. ↗

— David Frum

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My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game. ↗

— Alan Lewis

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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