#conviction

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

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Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. ↗

— John Updike

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Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion. ↗

— Criss Jami

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If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction. ↗

— Connie Brockway

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Convictions are prisons. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#inspirational #inspirational

I have the courage of my convictions. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must. ↗

— Jim Cramer

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The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

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