#conviction

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction. ↗

— David Petraeus

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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated. ↗

— Sam Phillips

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Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting. ↗

— River Phoenix

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I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem. ↗

— Tabare Vazquez

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

— Jean Rostand

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You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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