And we try to convince ourselves we really try to convince ourselves they're wrong.

That's when we convince ourselves that a lie is the truth.

1. We must convince ourselves that the new opportunity can generate the returns on capital our investors expected when they invested in Amazon

2. we must convince ourselves that the new business can grow to a scale where it can be significant in the context of our overall company

Do the smiles convince?

I can't convince them.

That justification will not convince economists, who prefer a dryer sort of reasoning. But it is not out of place to remind ourselves that economists and bureaucrats need not always have things their own way.

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Tony said that it's a lot harder to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

It is hard to convince John.

Fortunately, we've been able to convince Congress.

Then you have to convince your colleagues.

I could not convince him of his mistake.

I tried to convince Tom to come home.

And that's what I'd like to convince you of today.

And you have to, first you have to convince yourself.

She was asked to convince him to paint the house.

We weren't sure at all. And we managed to convince him.

And, you know, we thought well, we tried to convince them.

So, I hope to convince you that complex doesn't always equal complicated.

Let me try to convince you of that in a few seconds.

They target poor families and convince the parents to send their children.

We have to convince our audience that what we're talking about matters.

And that change is forcing us to question quite fundamental aspects of our society how we keep ourselves healthy, how we govern ourselves, how we educate ourselves, how we keep ourselves secure.

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists.

Tell them this story. Convince them to tell the story to another two persons.

But what if we could convince them to build a solar cell for us?

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

What about ourselves?

We need compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self interest to get ourselves serious.

And our job is to convince the authorities that these forests have to be protected.

We talked to the parents, tried to convince them about sending their children to school.

It's never going to convince anybody to do something that they don't want to do.

I tried to convince myself that, No, no, I have worked for the policy changes.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

And you see agenda this is marketing, this is politics trying to convince you to have one model versus another, trying to convince you to ignore a model and trust your feelings, marginalizing people with models you don't like.

It had potential to really change the way that we saw ourselves, and thought about ourselves.

We hold ourselves back.

We make it ourselves.

We short change ourselves.

We tell ourselves stories.

We are endangering ourselves.

We did it ourselves.