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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

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Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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

— Daniel Webster

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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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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

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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them. ↗

— Asa Gray

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In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

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We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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