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Conviction

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Nina Simone Singer, Songwriter, Pianist
Conviction

"The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why."

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Sarah Unknown
Conviction

"Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity and goodwill and clear convictions and a servant's heart."

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Kate Chopin Author
Conviction

"She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself."

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Conviction

"He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him"

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Conviction

"It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium."

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
Conviction

"Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know."

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