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Winning People Over to Your Way of Thinking: Being Persuasive
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others. Blaise Pascal
One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them. Dean Rusk
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. Dwight Eisenhower
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree I'd spend six sharpening my axe. Abraham Lincoln
Statistics are no substitute for judgment. Henry Clay
I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say. Elizabeth Gaskell
