Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
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Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
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The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.
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I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.
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2 Thessalonians 2:13:
But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
(NIV)
But we, brethren beloved by the Lord, ought and are obligated [as those who are in debt] to give thanks always to God for you, because God chose you from the beginning as His firstfruits (first converts) for salvation through the sanctifying work of the [Holy] Spirit and [your] belief in (adherence to, trust in, and reliance on) the Truth.
(AMP)
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
(KJV)
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The polls say we are within three points. We haven't made many converts, but we sure have made a lot of undecided.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
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The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
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The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
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An overflow of good converts to bad.
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I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries
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Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
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I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.
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