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«Persuasion is often more effectual than force.»
«The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion»
Author: Everett Dirksen
(Senator)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
constitutionality, match, persuasion, with compassion
«REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accessible, dissuasion, evasion, evasions, hospitable, infections, persuasion
«Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
hammer, persuasion, thaw, thawed, Thor
«Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
aims, converted, delivery, listener, listeners, oral, persuaded, persuasion, persuasions, The Listener
«Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.»
«Persuasion is better than force.»
«Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.»
«Then I asked: `Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?' He replied: `All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.'»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
ages, firm, mountains, persuasion, persuasions, poets, removed, replied
«One in whom persuasion and beliefHad ripened into faith, and faith becomeA passionate intuition.»
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