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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character. ↗

— James Stockdale

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It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions. ↗

— John Ciardi

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It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time. ↗

— Arthur Cohn

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The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

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The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. ↗

— John Moody

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Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in. ↗

— Origen

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Constant repetition carries conviction. ↗

— Robert Collier

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What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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