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"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."
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"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."
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"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
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"An indictment is not a conviction."
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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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"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
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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."
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"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
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"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
Success
"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."
Discipline
"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
Mind
"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."
Etiquette
"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."
Compromise
"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."
Life
"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."
Society
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
Work
"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
Heroism
"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."
Government
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