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Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

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A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. ↗

— John McCarthy

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I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American. ↗

— George McGovern

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Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. ↗

— George McGovern

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I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century. ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. ↗

— Ron Paul

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Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do. ↗

— Jane Pauley

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