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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. - Benjamin F

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. – Benjamin Franklin

Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. – Benjamin Franklin

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Religion
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Benjamin Franklin
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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. – Benjamin Franklin

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Life
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Benjamin Franklin
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Persuasion
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life — there, if one must speak out, the real man. – Marcus Aurelius

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Persuasion

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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Persuasion

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. – Johann von Goethe

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Persuasion

He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock. – Scottish Proverb

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Persuasion

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Keep true to the dreams of your youth. – Friedrich Schiller

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The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesnt operate in this region. Its difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding. – Nicholas D. Kristof

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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues – Tories – in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. Im not a believer in laissez-faire. – Vince Cable

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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike

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Honesty