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«There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best»
«Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.»
«There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.»
«Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
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Theology
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black, black cat, cellar, cellars, midnight, persuade, searching, theologian, theologians, theologies, theology
«The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.»
Author: Stendhal
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Interest
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interests, persuade, sheep, shepherd, shepherded, The Shepherd, tries
«There must be several young women who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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intensely, marry, one of them, Only You, persuade, render, several, The Christian
«The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Education
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drift, drifted, persuade, worlds