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"Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."
"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
"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 deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
"It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities."
"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."
"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
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