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"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
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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."
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"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."
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"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
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"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
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"Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction."
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"It is better to believe than doubt."
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"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."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
People
"Character must be kept bright as well as clean."
Character
"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
Man
"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
Advice
"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you."
Love
"Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one."
Learning
"There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
People
"If you are not in fashion, you are nobody."
Fashion
"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."
Excellence
"Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison."
Health
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