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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 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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"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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"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."
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"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."
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"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
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"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
Effort
"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
Imagination
"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
Dream
"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."
Cards
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
Nature
"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."
Talent
"If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger."
People
"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
Libraries
"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."
Applause
"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."
American
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