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"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
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"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."

"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."

"It is better to believe than doubt."

"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."

"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."

"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."

"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."

"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."

"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."
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"Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone."
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