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Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life. -- Stefan Zweig
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government. -- John Sharp Williams
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs. -- Francis Darwin
Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too. -- Anna Julia Cooper
The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more. -- Artur Davis
You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out. -- Stanley Crouch
Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right. -- Erich von Stroheim
Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music. -- Michelle Shocked
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master. -- David Josiah Brewer
The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different. -- Marianne Williamson
The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. -- Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won't pay for it, that is the artist's fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive's fault or the world's. -- Jill Soloway
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
What convinces is conviction. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Art starts alone - and convinces society later. -- Douglas Davis
But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces. -- Anthony Trollope
Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces. -- Paul Claudel
What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The photographer's vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand. -- John Szarkowski
Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on. -- Philip Roth
Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend. -- Lord Chesterfield
It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner. -- Matthew Fox
A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man. -- Mark Kac
That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is. -- Isaac Asimov
Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance. -- Jonathan Nolan
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. -- Francis Darwin
In reality, it's much easier not to smoke or eat chocolate than to do so. It's your mind that convinces you otherwise. -- Wayne Dyer
He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood. -- Robert Kennedy
I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept. -- William Butler Yeats
Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me. -- Khalil Gibran
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The choreographer and the dancer must remember"¨that they reach the audience through the eye."¨It's the illusion created which convinces the audience,"¨much as it is with the work of a magician -- George Balanchine
Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which two chessplayers could agree is that a third one is over-rated. -- Arpad Elo
It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception. -- Frederick Lenz
Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by Bradley Cooper, to let her appear as herself. -- Kenneth Turan
Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert. -- Peter Lynch
If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us? -- Idries Shah

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