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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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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 hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."
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"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."
Education
"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."
People
"All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species."
Law
"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."
People
"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them."
People
"Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess."
Values
"Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community."
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"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive."
People
"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."
Education
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