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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada. ↗

— Preston Manning

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Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something. ↗

— Charles Manson

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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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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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