The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion.... Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however unavoidable, is a disclosure of the f
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A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.
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Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.
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Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, I just might try it, we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.
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There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
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Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands
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Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion
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The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion
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In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
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The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
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Persuasion is better than force.
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He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue
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The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.
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We see this a lot in social psychology, the idea of social influence and persuasion -- the whole idea that other people do influence our decisions in many different ways. I think what's happening here is that you might like something, of course, but then you find out that it's already popular -- and you like it even more.
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I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
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The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
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He played in goal for us before moving away to Surrey. He's back here for Christmas and the New Year, but hasn't brought any football gear with him, so we're having to use all powers of persuasion to get him to play.
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Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Not at all,.. I've been a Democrat all my life, and I've been a contributor to candidates of Democratic persuasion -- sometimes Republican -- all my life. I'm a political activist. I consider it a responsibility and, frankly, I consider it a privilege to be a part of it.
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Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
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