"Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt
Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.
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“Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement”
“A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.”
“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.”
More on Persuasion
“not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.”
“Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better." -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X”
“Calamus fortior gladio.”
More on Influence
“Thoughts rule the world.”
“If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.”
“Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.”