"Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!"
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"Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile."
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"It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice."
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"The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God."
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"Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge."
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"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?"
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"Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God."
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"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."
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"What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!"
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"Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust."
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"Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing."
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"I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been."
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"Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?"
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"We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly."
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"The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction."
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"Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others."
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"Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest."
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"Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved"
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"Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction."
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"Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them."
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