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"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
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"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."

"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."

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

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

"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."

"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."

"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."

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

"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."

"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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"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."

"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."

"That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim."
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