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

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

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For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive. ↗

— Jeff Flake

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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent. ↗

— William Bernbach

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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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Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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