"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."

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"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."

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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."

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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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"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."

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"The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves."

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"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."

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"An indictment is not a conviction."

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"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."

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"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."

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