#convict

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you. ↗

— Faith Baldwin

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions. ↗

— Evan Sayet

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Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history. ↗

— John Shimkus

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It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city. ↗

— David Simon

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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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Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

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My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics. ↗

— Traian Basescu

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