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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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"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."
"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
"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."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."
"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
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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."
"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive."
"The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life."
"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."
"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
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