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• We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Philosophy, Tradition, Abandon

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1989). “Mikhail Gorbachev Addresses the United Nations”

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• The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Men, Ethos, Bravery

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• If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Sex, Moral, Defeat

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Stronger, Would Be, Bihar

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

  Peter Medawar

  Truth, Giving, Advice

  Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”

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• Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

  Jeremy Collier

  Thinking, Giving, Imperfection

  Jeremy Collier (1722). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...”, p.19

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• Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Player, Men, Gambling

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.133, University of Georgia Press

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• Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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• The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Action, Reason

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 27, 1799.

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• It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Men, Fishing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

  Andrew Johnson

  Inspirational Life, Presidential, Honest

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-July 1866”, p.151, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Uncles, Uncle Sam, Firm

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Freedom, Democracies Have, People

  "The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1937.

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• If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Confidence, Fear

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 22, 2012

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• What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell.

  Tony Robbins

  Emotional, Heaven, Inner Strength

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 07, 2011

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• Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

  River Phoenix

  Acting, Hobbies, Making Money

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Success, Romantic Love, Achievement

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Girl, Anxiety, Political

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• And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.

  Pia Zadora

  Strong, Women, Writing

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• Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Work, Friendly, Sticks

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit.

  Jim Ramstad

  Strong, Character, Men

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• If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

  Jacques Derrida

  Insecurity, Eccentric, Strange

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• I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Order, Political, Suffering

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• 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.

  John W. Gardner

  Ignorance, Simple, Two

  "A Nation Is Never Finished". ABA Journal, Volume 53, page 1011, November 1967.

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• Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

  Walter Benjamin

  Leap, Strollers, Robbers

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.481, Harvard University Press

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