Quotes with convert

  • It is the essence of grantsmanship to persuade the Foundation executives that it was they who suggested the research project and that you were a belated convert, agreeing reluctantly to all they had proposed.

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  • St. Thomas Aquinas To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Hans Selye Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • Lord George Byron I 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.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bai Ling I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Margaret Atwood If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
    Margaret Atwood
    Canadian writer, poet, criticus (1939 - )
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  • Bede Griffiths It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson It is the essence of grantsmanship to persuade the Foundation executives that it was they who suggested the research project and that you were a belated convert, agreeing reluctantly to all they had proposed.
    Parkinsons Laws in Medical Research, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1962
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Angela Davis Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Camille Paglia Sedgwick has managed to convert pedestrian critical skills and little discernible knowledge in history, philosophy, psychology, art or even pre-modern literature into a lucrative academic career.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Mason The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.
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  • Lewis Mumford The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Henry Miller The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Pasquier Quesnel The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
    Pasquier Quesnel
    French theologian (1634 - 1719)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Zig Ziglar Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Bob Inglis We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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  • Ann Coulter We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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