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If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
by Antonin Scalia (Judge, American , born in 1936) keywords: abortion, adopt, again, bring, citizens, constitution, death, enact, fellow, flexibility, good, idea, living, penalty, persuade, right, think, want , your Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
by Charles Schumer (Politician, American , born in 1950) keywords: arguments, bit, canyon, creates, expediency, life, love, oblivion, path, persuade, river, road, slow, step, tortured, undoing , way John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.
by Norodom Sihanouk (Royalty, Cambodian , born in 1922) keywords: argument, asia, called, cambodia, capacity, east, every, exhausted, foster, had, his, john, organization, persuade, place, protection, secretary, south, state, treaty , under The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
by L. Neil Smith (Writer, American , born in 1946) keywords: along, boycott, effective, even, first, go, lot, main, maybe, millions, must, others, persuade, problem, successful, thousands, usually, which , work We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.
by Tony Snow (Journalist, American , born in 1955) keywords: essential, got, hearts, hope, human, just, persuade, possible , rebuild The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
by Henri B. Stendhal (Writer, French , born in 1783) keywords: always, his, interests, own, persuade, same, sheep, shepherd, their , tries No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
by Donald Sutherland (Actor, Canadian , born in 1935) keywords: accountant, british, cost, country, curiously, enough, everything, government, had, patently, persuade, problem, rich, said, tax, taxing, them, were , wrong I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.
by Helen Thomas (Journalist, American , born in 1920) keywords: convince, could, covered, credibility, decided, govern, had, longer, more, nixon, now, once, persuade, presidents, seem, should, think, tolerant, tolerate , two Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
by Ieyasu Tokugawa (Statesman, Japanese , born in 1543) keywords: despair, discontent, imperfection, inconvenience, lot, mortals, natural, neither, persuade, room, thyself , will I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
by Calvin Trillin (Journalist, American , born in 1935) topics: Imagination keywords: answers, could, did, hadn, literally, math, meant, never, persuade, seem, teacher, very , well When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.
by Jim Wallis (Writer, American , born in 1948) keywords: am, around, completely, concerned, evangelical, good, happening, leaders, persuade, president, sex, sudan, supportive, thing, trafficking, very , world The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
by Simone Weil (Philosopher, French , born in 1909) keywords: any, bread, danger, doubt, hungry, itself, lest, lie, persuade, should, soul , whether For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.
by Wim Wenders (Director, German , born in 1945) keywords: culture, doing, european, had, lobbying, movies, needed, others, persuade, politicians, protect, seemed, them , years You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.
by Mary Wesley (Novelist, British , born in 1912) keywords: child, else, go, hear, know, off, persuade, right, same, someone, something, suggestion , want But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.
by James Wolfensohn (Businessman, Australian , born in 1933) keywords: everything, hard, horse, looks, outsider, persuade, someone, something, them, very, winning, wonderful , wrong
