"I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them."
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"The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied."
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"If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war."
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"In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all."
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"I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity"
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"My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in."
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"If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others."
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"Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities."
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"There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions."
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"Whatever you say, say it with conviction"
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"People will judge you according to your own convictions."
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"My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world."
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"Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking."
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"Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction."
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"I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me."
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"One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you."
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"And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation."
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"I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity."
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"If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself"
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"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."
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