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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 act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
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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."
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"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
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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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"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
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"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."
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"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."
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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
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"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
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"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
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"In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody."
Peace
"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."
Doubt
"This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition."
History
"Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages."
Time
"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."
Business
"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."
History
"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing."
Living
"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."
American
"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."
Patience
"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."
Reality
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