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"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
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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."
"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."
"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."
"Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."
"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 man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."
"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."
"It is better to believe than doubt."
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"I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact."
"Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation."
"Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing."
"Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe."
"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."
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