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Men often take their imagination for their heart; and...

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about man, imagination, heart, being

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

Quote by Scott Adams about heads, obstacles, principle, things, people

There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about present, man

know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about pleasure

Time makes more converts than reason.

Time makes more converts than reason.

Quote by Thomas Paine about time, reason

In the eighties I watched hard-line Marxists converting...

In the eighties I watched hard-line Marxists converting to political Islam after the collapse of their belief system.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about politics, faith

Few passages of history are more striking than those...

Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians.

Quote by Francis Parkman about history

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about dream, reality, faith, peace, day, world

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Quote by William Penn about opinion, force, police

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