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"Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."
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"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."

"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."

"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."

"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."

"The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them."

"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."

"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."

"Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win."

"We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must."

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."

"The question of commonsense is always 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage."

"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side."

"No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him there is always work And tools to work withal for those who will And blessed are the horny hands of toil!"
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