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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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"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions."
"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
"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."
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
"It is better to believe than doubt."
"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
"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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"Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others."
"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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