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My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best. ↗

— Alain Prost

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In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me. ↗

— Burton Richter

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The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't. ↗

— Mo Rocca

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Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

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I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave. ↗

— Spalding Gray

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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

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