#convict

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

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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

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For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict. ↗

— Raquel Welch

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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

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It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

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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

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I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight. ↗

— Chris Bell

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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. ↗

— George Eliot

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