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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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Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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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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Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. ↗

— John McCain

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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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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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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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