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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy
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I would expect that both sides now are struggling to control the board. It may be that there are directors who were appointed by each side, but outside independent directors are not going to be loyal to someone if there is strong persuasive evidence that that person was involved in fraud.

John Coffee
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Smoke and mirrors, mostly smoke. The real issue was, 'Did he fail the drug test?' Anything else was immaterial. The league evidently found the testimony in his behalf not persuasive.

Jim Godes
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To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

Edward R. Murrow
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This decision won't be formally binding, but it might have some persuasive effect in the future, and at least give counsel some caution before going on fishing expeditions for what people are searching for.

Paul Schiff Berman
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It's facetious and not very persuasive for Family Pride to say they're not making a political statement.

Mark Tooley
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Icahn is going to have to be very persuasive with shareholders for those holders to abandon the company.

Marc Cohen
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The judge found him persuasive.

Lorrain Croy
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It was that simple. George was very receptive to my persuasive arguments against wiretapping.

Spencer Scharff
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Gary is the one who promoted the whole idea of bringing the Whitbread to Baltimore and Annapolis. Gary's connections and persuasive ability were instrumental in getting the race organizers and participants to come here.

Lee Tawney
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Dad is so persuasive that when he said that he wasn't, I believed him. We had people calling. The media calling every year on the anniversary, and he always denied that he was and I went along with it.

Joan Felt
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Debates, in the modern political system, are not won by the person who knows the most information; they're won by the person who is most persuasive for their position.

Joe Lockhart
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''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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Obviously, I'm pro marketing, ... I just think it needs to be regulated and families need to help kids ... You and I can make decisions about whether we want to eat at McDonald's and whether we want ice cream. Kids don't understand the persuasive component. They want the toy.

Margaret Campbell
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I was not persuasive enough to persuade the president that the Marines were there on an impossible mission.

Caspar W. Weinberger
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Dramatic, heart-rending and powerfully persuasive case of irreparable harm to literally tens of thousands of people.

Lawrence King
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It's not persuasive to me as an employee of Webster University, because we won't see a dime of it. But even as a financial aid administrator, I still don't buy it. Capital improvements don't help students pay for college.

Jon Gruett
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They have no right to develop this land unless they put a persuasive case in front of the people of Maine.

Brownie Carson
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