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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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"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
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"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
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"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."
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"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
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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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"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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"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."
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"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect."
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"If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr."
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"It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we... But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as means of transportation."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
People
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Man
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
Life
"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
Life
"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
Friendship
"Disease generally begins that equality which death completes."
Death
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
Hope
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
Art
"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty."
Compassion
"Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears."
Strength
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