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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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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
Man
"There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking."
People
"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."
Nature
"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
Dream
"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."
Time
"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
People
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
Nature
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
Idea
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
Experience
"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
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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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"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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"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
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"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."
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"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."
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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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"An indictment is not a conviction."
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"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."
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"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
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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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