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

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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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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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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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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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? ↗

— Ted Olson

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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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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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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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