“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We haven't unfortunately been able to persuade Apple Corps in relation to their Beatles catalogue. But we have persuaded everybody else.”
Anthony Grabiner
“Moscow hopes to use energy as a trump card to persuade the Western leaders that it's a powerful player to reckon with.”
Yevgeny Volk
“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct”
Voltaire
“I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.”
Calvin Trillin
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.”
William Shakespeare
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