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  • Samuel Huntington The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Frederick W. Faber Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
    Frederick W. Faber
    English hymn writer and theologian (1814 - 1863)
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  • Blaise Pascal Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Anita Diamant My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • John Morley You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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