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The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

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Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive. ↗

— Demetri Martin

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The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed. ↗

— Charles Rosen

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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