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"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."

"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."

"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."

"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."

"Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."

"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."

"Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction."

"The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool."

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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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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