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"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
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"If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr."
"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."
"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."
"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."
"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
"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."
"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."
"If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction."
"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing."
"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."
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