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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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"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 best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
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"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."
"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
"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."
"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it."
"There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him."
"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."
"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
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