#conviction

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail. ↗

— Owen Arthur

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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people. ↗

— Jeb Bush

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If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction. ↗

— Alex Chilton

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It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time. ↗

— Arthur Cohn

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Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty. ↗

— Francis W. Newman

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