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«Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.»
«The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.»
Author: Louis Pasteur
(Chemist, Microbiologist)
| Keywords:
asymmetric, asymmetry, indirect, persuaded
«No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.»
Author: Robert Southey
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Cute friendship,
Friends,
Friendship,
Goodbye,
Happiness
| Keywords:
lapse, lapsed, lapses, lapsing, lessen, persuaded
«People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Mind,
People,
Reason
| Keywords:
come in, discovered, generally, persuaded, persuades, reasons
«The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, efficiency, egalitarianism, hierarchical, persuaded, sentimental, tangles, trauma
«These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.»
«Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of act»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
persuaded, sphere, vanity fair
«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
«There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.»
«Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.»
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