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"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
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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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"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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"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."
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"Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
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"An indictment is not a conviction."
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"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
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"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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"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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"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."
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"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."
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"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"
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"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."
History
"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting."
Nature
"It is very easy to love alone."
Love
"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."
Man
"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."
Art
"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."
Doubt
"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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