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For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually ma

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. – Janet Frame

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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. – Janet Frame

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Imagination
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Janet Frame
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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, were always in other places, lost, like sheep. – Janet Frame

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Travel
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Other Quotes from
Persuasion
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them. – Johann von Goethe

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Persuasion

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

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Persuasion

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. – P. J. ORourke

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Government

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. – Ezra Pound

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Men

Over the eons Ive been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to simplify and bring order to my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm. – James Fallows

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Computers

It is true that you cant prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder. – Ray Comfort

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positive