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I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
E. O. Wilson
Hope
Natural
Mind
Too
Our
Wildlife
Critical
Intrude
Vanishing
Had
Badly
Environment
Importance
Message
Although
Southerners
American
Natural Environment
Land
Persuading
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Lucretius
Religion
Evil
Potent
Persuading
Deeds
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
John Berger
People
World
Looking
See
About
More
Both
Marvellous
Write
Terrible
Around
Wanted
Us
Persuading
Helping
Helping People
Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person.
Nick Hornby
People
Right Person
Sometimes
Project
Stay
Attached
Retrospect
Person
Then
Persuading
Right
Need
Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built. That involves persuading government to have regulatory policies. It involves new technology to bring the Internet to rural places.
Vint Cerf
Government
Technology
World
Internet
Nation
Every
Topic
Rural
All-Around
New
Involves
Policies
Around
Built
Question
New Technology
Getting
Places
Persuading
Regulatory
Bring
Every Nation
Persuading employees to let go of old values and beliefs and adopt new ones can be challenging.
Steve Blank
Old
Values
Employees
Adopt
New
Go
New Ones
Persuading
Let Go
Beliefs
Challenging
I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and more straightforward than scribbling a note in our kitchen diary.
Jojo Moyes
Technology
Husband
Think
Our
More
Kitchen
Computers
Talk
Sake
Diary
Lot
Quicker
Than
Going
Scribbling
Note
Straightforward
Convinced
Persuading
Awful
Awful Lot
Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.
Maurice Saatchi
You
Will
Lamp
Say
Tell
Magic
Advance
Nobody
Audience
Effective
Whether
Which
Persuading
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
Junius
Politics
Religion
Others
Ourselves
Well
Mistaken
Holy
Convince
Persuading
Zeal
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
Gilbert Highet
Politics
Vote
Those
Promise
Support
Endure
Public
Persuading
I did more than anyone else in persuading the U.S. to get rid of Saddam.
Ahmed Chalabi
Else
More
Saddam
Than
Get
Did
Anyone
Anyone Else
Persuading
Rid
The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.
Ahmed Chalabi
War
Has-Been
Administration
Exaggerated
Issue
Go
Been
Greatly
Role
Bush
Bush Administration
Persuading