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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 best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."
"The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves."
"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
"There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians."
"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."
"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."
"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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"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."
"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."
"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
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