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"You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to."
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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."

"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."

"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."
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"I know that my grandmother certainly did nothing to warrant my mother stealing all of her jewelry that my grandfather had given her as gifts over the years, just so she could peddle it for heroin on the street. Those were precious metals and gems that could never be replaced, and each one had a story behind it. A love story between my grandparents, that my mother flushed down a proverbial toilet so that she could shoot up, throw up and pass out."

"Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own."

"What you should actually be trying to figure out is how to tell your story. The one that is every bit as unique to you as your fingerprints.This is the truly amazing feat because you are literally the only person capable of doing that. Only you know all the parts to your story and only you can pass it on for others to hear if you choose to."

"The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won't matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it."

"I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own."

"How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others."

"Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone."

"I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below."

"If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on."
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