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converted
«You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.»
Author: John Morley
(Biographer, Journalist, Statesman)
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converted, have-not, him, silenced
«You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!»
«ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned, some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial. These were called Horizontalists, their opponents, Verticalists. The Horizontalist heresy was finally extinguished by Xanobus, the philosopher-king of Abara, a zealous Verticalist. Entering an assembly of philosophers who were debating the matter, he cast a severed human head at the feet of his opponents and asked them to determine its zenith, explaining that its body was hanging by the heels outside. Observing that it was the head of their leader, the Horizontalists hastened to profess themselves converted to whatever opinion the Crown might be pleased to hold, and Horizontalism took its place among _fides defuncti_.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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considerably, converted, debating, dissenting opinion, hastened, head over heels, human foot, human head, immaterial, opponents, overhead, profess, severed, The Crown, The Philosopher, zenith
«The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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conversion, conversions, Conversion of, converted, one-man, Paul, Paul A, Paul I, raised
«When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Goodbye
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Against Me, converted, farewell, mount, say farewell, scaffold, sheriff, sheriffs, The Scaffold
«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)
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aims, converted, delivery, listener, listeners, oral, persuaded, persuasion, persuasions, The Listener