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• In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Class, Great American, Nations

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• Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

  Dave Obey

  Dollars, Bank Accounts, Our Family

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• We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.

  Madison Grant

  Book, Believe, Publishing House

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• The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Order, Mind, Assumption

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• I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

  David Petraeus

  Politician, Absolutes

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 15, 2010.

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• Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I don't believe the armed forces respond to a political party.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Party, Believe, Government

  "Hugo Chávez rival pledges seismic shift in foreign policy" by Jonathan Watts, Virginia Lopez, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2012.

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• Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Brother, Order, Suffering

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• When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

  Criss Jami

  Motivational, Regret, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, People, Church

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• Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Real, Singing

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• Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Encouragement, Inspiration

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• Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Belief, Affirmation, Repetition

  Claude M. Bristol (1948). “Magic of Believing”, p.50, Lulu.com

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• He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge repeats with deep conviction the words uttered by the patriarch Abraham when he was granted the manifestation of God: 'I am dust and ashes' (Gen. 18:27).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Love Is

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• If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.

  Gary McCord

  Fall, Law, Ideas

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• I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

  Wole Soyinka

  People, Everyday, Wake Up

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• I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

  Charles William Eliot

  Summer, School, Years

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• Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Powerful, Taken, Loss

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• Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Appreciation, Pride, Vanity

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.

  Rachel Hartman

  Art, Lying, Believe

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.171, Random House

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• A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Strong, Lying, Confused

  "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1883.

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• As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

  Clara Shih

  Dream, Reality, Entrepreneur

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• The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.

  Paul Strand

  Heart, Artist, Decision

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• My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

  Jane Goodall

  Mother, Thinking, Taught Us

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• My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

  Christopher Hampton

  Men, Thinking, Belief

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• Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Passion, Media, Differences

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