#persuade

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. ↗

— Harry Browne

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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge. ↗

— Patrick White

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

— Danny Boyle

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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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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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