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"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."
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"I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state."
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
"You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to."
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"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."
"Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim."
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."
"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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