#conviction

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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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 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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And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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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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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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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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