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You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.
Parmenides
You must familiarize yourself with all facets of life, both the steadfastness of veracious information and the beliefs of people for which there is no reliable assurance.
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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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Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive.
Jay Baer
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Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.
Antony Flew
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The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.
John Szarkowski
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Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
Euripides
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We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.
Edwin Land
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Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.
Charlotte Beers
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I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.
Giancarlo Esposito
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Keep going until you get good counsel that is persuasive for you that you should go elsewhere.
Mark Dever
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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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Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.
Charlotte Beers
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How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
Aldous Huxley
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The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.
Pamela McCorduck
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The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.
Thornton Wilder
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Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.
Steve Inskeep
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Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.
Patricia Briggs
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The greatest communicators have unknowingly used a story pattern. They not only use anecdotes effectively, but their communication followed a persuasive story pattern of tension and release. That tension and release is created by contrasting [what is] with what could be as a structural device.
Nancy Duarte
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I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.
Rashida Jones
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A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the power of story on the human mind is such that anecdote is often more persuasive than numbers. That's why news stories often concretize the impact of a change in government policy by following the story of one person.
Zia Haider Rahman
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With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
Theophile Gautier
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Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.
Thomas S. Monson