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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Laurence Sterne

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

Louis Pasteur

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

Niccolo Machiavelli

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Blaise Pascal

That could very well change. I'm sure he could be persuaded one way or another. The kind of people who rate horses had him at 20-to-1 (in the Kentucky Derby Future Pool).

Jerry Hollendorfer

If your parents think ? or you've persuaded them ? that you're mature enough, then be mature enough.

Janet Bodnar

He raised his hands, then we grabbed him and persuaded him to assist us to dismantle the suicide vest that he was wearing.

Sharon Feingold

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

Marie De France

He is in Hawaii and listened to the race on the cell phone. I'm sure he can be persuaded to consider going for the Derby after such a good win.

Jerry Hollendorfer

Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

Bible

Allowing us to be persuaded by the argument of those who would deny that the genocide occurred at all.

Stephen Smith

He was persuaded that, for Puritans, there could only be one King, now and for ever.

Geoffrey Robertson

He's not a go-along, get-along type of person. Especially at this stage in his career, he would not be persuaded by (politics) if he genuinely believes they have a mandate to close bases.

Kirk Jowers

He persuaded me.

Mary Mcgrory

It is the first indication that the government has been persuaded by any of Telstra's regulatory arguments publicly expressed over the last few months.

Tim Smart

John Hammond persuaded Columbia to put it out as a single, and it was the only one I ever had that sold more than 20,000.

Pete Seeger

This was a boy who had lost everything. Finally we persuaded him to take a basketball. We told him he was going to a gym and his eyes lit up.

Ida Schossow

Many people know and trust the Virgin brand and we fear consumers might well be persuaded to buy a product that's unsuitable by clever marketing.

Kevin Carr

It never occurred to me that anyone would buy into the notion that Mr. Bush and his supporters would actually do something about poverty and racism. Someone who believed that could probably be persuaded to make a bid on eBay to buy the Brooklyn Bridge.

Bob Herbert

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Robert Southey

That would have been very expensive and difficult to do, so we (arts community leaders) persuaded Pam to let us honor Mozart using local resources.

Nancy Laturno Bojanic

The morning after a death, we learned an avalanche of goodies about the renowned, some of which persuaded the reader that he should have cultivated the deceased in life.

Jim Bishop

In an attempt to bring industrial harmony and peace, the Ministry of Finance was persuaded that it was possible without disrupting the news to our creditors to advance the $1,300 and the Prime Minister agreed.

Fred Mitchell

They persuaded me to give it a shot.

Mark Jacobs

They have persuaded the American people we can't win, because they don't level. They've persuaded people we can't win.

Chris Wallace

We are fully persuaded that payroll giving is the easiest, most tax-efficient way for employees to give to charity. The cost to individuals is less and the charities receive more.

John Griffith

Very often we see traffickers taking advantage of people's desperate situation, moving into a situation where families can be persuaded or compelled to part with their children.

Brunson Mckinley

These guys [the state attorneys general] have been persuaded to throw in the towel.

Richard Daynard

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change.

John Wilhelm

He was persuaded that if he joined the Marines he would get a new sense of purpose.

Rosemary Palmer

We want to do this ourselves in the most comfortable setting we can think of - to be in each moment together and not be persuaded by a hospital's agenda.

Aaron Wolf

By that time, we had persuaded two of my buddies, Wayne (Boggs) and Jud, to come on board to make a record.

Bob Long

This marks an important point in which, for the first time, we got the attention of the oil companies and persuaded them to do something.

Edmundo Espindola

How do you get there from here? They haven't persuaded me that this is valid, ... You have to have a disruption of civil authority before the military can perform activities such as surveillance.

Eugene Fidell