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"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
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"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."
"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
"A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct."
"Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine."
"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."
"If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence."
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