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Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan. ↗

— Stockwell Day

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I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.' ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism. ↗

— John Doolittle

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Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

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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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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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Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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