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convince
«There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.»
«The continued utterance of a lie does not make it true, but it does convince many that it is, particularly if you can squelch most efforts to expose the lie.»
Author: Shapley R. Hunter
| About:
Lies
| Keywords:
continued, convince, expose, particularly, squelch, utterance
«No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
achievements, bear witness, convince, shortcoming, shortcomings, transgressions, witness
«No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
convince, depression, depressions, economically, Great Depression, possibly, scarred, the Depression, the Great Depression
«There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.»
Author: Peter Ustinov
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
convince, credentials, evangelical, prophet, virtually
«There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right»
«So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of wasn't funny.»
«Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.»
Author: Zig Ziglar
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
bad person, convince, doom, dooms, gloom, hang, hang around, lifting, long shot, optimistic, otherwise, precious, pull, pull down, shoot down, shot, surround, Too Short