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"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."
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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."

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

"The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool."

"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."

"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."

"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect."

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."

"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."

"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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"People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most."

"If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?"
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