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"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
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"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
"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."
"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."
"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
"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 choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."
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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."
"It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true."
"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage."
"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."
"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."
"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."
"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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