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"Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction." »Julian Weber Gordon
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"If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. (On appeasement)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind." »Eric Hoffer
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"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously." »Nicholas Butler
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"Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero." »George Moore
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"We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others." »John F. Kennedy
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"He that is not open to conviction, is not qualified for discussion." »Richard Whately
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"We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others." »John F. Kennedy
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"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." »Daniel Webster
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"In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)" »George Will
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"I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." »F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." »Victor Hugo
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction." »Blaise Pascal
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"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." »Victor Hugo
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"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on." »Walter J. Lippmann
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"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on." »Walter Lippmann
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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle." »G. C. Lichtenberg
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"Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself." »Jean Francois Revel
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"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." »Vaclev Havel
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"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." »Vaclav Havel
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"To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth." »Charles-Damian Boulogne
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." »Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, ch. 5 (1986; tr. 1990).
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"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time." »Franklin P. Adams
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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library." »Samuel Johnson
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"The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without." »Eric Hoffer
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"Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room." »Heywood
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"Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good." »Swami Vivekananda
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"Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." »William Butler Yeats
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