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• I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.

  Ian Caldwell

  Art, Book, Reading

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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• When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Powerful, Heart, Discipline

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• I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Nwo

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• In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms, but not in its substance. And a deep conviction that nothing can be proven except that it be made to bleed. Virgins, bulls, men. Ultimately God himself.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Men, Great Love

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Action, Courses

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• "You...you lost your faith?"
  "No...just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing."
  Lev begins to feel himself choking up with an unexpected flood of feeling, all the emotions that had been building up throughout their talk-throughout the weeks-arriving all at once like a sonic boom.
  "I never knew there was a choice".

  Neal Shusterman

  Believe, Building Up, Choices

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• The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

  Hannah Arendt

  Form, Capacity, Aim

  Hannah Arendt (1966). “The origins of totalitarianism”

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• Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Opinion, Tomorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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• I began to understand that there were certain talkers - certain girls - whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls, had to say, but because of the delight they took in saying it. A delight in themselves, a shine on their faces, a conviction that whatever they were telling about was remarkable and that they themselves could not help but give pleasure. There might be other people - people like me - who didn't concede this, but that was their loss. And people like me would never be the audience these girls were after, anyway.

  Alice Munro

  Girl, Loss, Shine On

  "Some Women" by Alice Munro, www.newyorker.com. December 22, 2008.

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• Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Trying, Dying, Fit

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• The poor lady must have dropped that", she said, and undid the gate stepping out to get it. Jared put his hand on it, "No". Mrs Jeffries stared down at him. "What do you mean...no?" Jared and Mrs.Jeffries stared back at each other,neither breaking eye contact in a perfect deadlock. Then Jared smiled at her. "I mean", he said with conviction, "it's mine." "It's what?" Jared stood up, pocketing the lipstick. "I know", he responded. "Everyone tells me i'm more of a summer". Mrs.Jeffries continued to stare. Jared continued to speak. "I'm going to go now. Me... and my lipstick.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Summer, Mean, Eye

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)”, p.116, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside them. It is just a matter of persistence--sticking to what you have envisioned until it is reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose in life. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.

  Ilchi Lee

  Believe, Persistence, Reality

  Ilchi Lee (2009). “Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back Into the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy Life”, p.105, BEST Life Media

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• The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality.

  Brian Tracy

  Believe, Personality, Depth

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 05, 2014

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• A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.

  John Robert Seeley

  Real, Book, Knowledge

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• The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Teacher, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.278, Harvard University Press

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• We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Night, Working Together

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• With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

  John Doolittle

  War, People, Vision

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• We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions. ...When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.

  Paul Rogat Loeb

  Heart, Voice, Giving

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• Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.

  Brian Tracy

  Believe, Reality, Belief

  Brian Tracy (1996). “Advanced Selling Strategies: The Proven System of Sales Ideas, Methods, and Techniques Used by Top Salespeople”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Self, Arrogance, Ironic

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• A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Art, Narrative Voice

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• It will be! the mass is working clearer!
  Conviction gathers, truer, nearer!
  The mystery which for Man in Nature lies
  We dare to test, by knowledge led;
  And that which she was wont to organize
  We crystallize, instead.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Hard Work, Knowledge

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1912). “Faust”

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• When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.

  Marianne Williamson

  Creativity, Carpe Diem, Hatred

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• We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Atheist, Ninety Nine

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