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The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked. ↗

— Elliott Smith

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I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time. ↗

— Charles Stanley

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The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back. ↗

— Charles Hamilton Houston

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The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant. ↗

— Bill Johnson

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I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt. ↗

— James McGreevey

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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. ↗

— Harold Kushner

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. ↗

— Jane Austen

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I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it. ↗

— Scipio Africanus

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