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• One of the dreariest spots on life’s road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

  Faith Baldwin

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• To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction – and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

  Stephen Baker

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• When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

  Bertrand Russell

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• People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.

  Ayn Rand

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• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

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• Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

  Flannery O'Connor

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• The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

  Tom Wolfe

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• Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

  Thomas Carlyle

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• Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

  Thomas Carlyle

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• Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

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• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

  Ralph Nader

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• The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

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• Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

  Roscoe Conkling

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• Constant repetition carries conviction.

  Robert Collier

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• You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won’t necessarily help you in making art.

  Maya Lin

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• I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn’t.

  Michael Caine

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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.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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• The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

  William Butler Yeats

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• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  Samuel Butler

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• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

  Walter Lippmann

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