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William Butler Yeats

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

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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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"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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"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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"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."

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"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."

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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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"It is better to believe than doubt."

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"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air."
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"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."
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"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."
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