#convictions

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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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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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that. ↗

— John Grisham

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