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What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest. ↗

— Earl Browder

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A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

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Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers. ↗

— Julia Gillard

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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't. ↗

— Michael Caine

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And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand. ↗

— Duane Chapman

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There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens. ↗

— Powell Clayton

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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips. ↗

— Frank Gifford

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