#convict

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach. ↗

— William Barclay

#attained #certainty #christ #conviction #doubts

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#by the time #conviction #delivered #everybody #except

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

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With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#power #sacrifice

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

— Jeremy Collier

#dispose #fuller #gives #imperfections #learning

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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Sadly, every year hundreds of children are victimized by a convicted sexual offender. Convicted predators should be put in prison where they belong and kept away from our Nation's children. ↗

— Jim Costa

#belong #children #convicted #every #hundreds

The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#apparently #bears #before #come #conviction

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#convict #extract #force #his #hold

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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