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• Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, United States, Matter

  Christopher Hitchens (1994). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.220, Verso

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• I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.

  George Mason

  House, Able, Essentials

  Letter to Edmund Randolph, October 19, 1782.

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• The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.

  Lucian

  Real, Luck, Pieces

  Lucian of Samosata (1905). “Works of Lucian of Samosata (Complete Four Volumes)”, p.359, Library of Alexandria

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• The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions about individual rights, the English have a natural taste for disorder.

  Anna Pavlova

  Rights, English History, Looks

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• By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.

  Yvor Winters

  Practice, Identity, Body

  Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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• To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Men, Barbarians, Realizing

  "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy". Book by Joseph Schumpeter, Part IV, Chapter XX, Section III, 1942.

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• Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Father, Party, Writing

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• No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Religious, Too Late, Legislature

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• The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon the right of conquest and followed by commercial war, but only by a peace which gives just consideration to the claims of nationality, and which lays the foundation of a real European partnership.

  Norman Angell

  Real, War, Giving

  "Union of Democratic Control". spartacus-educational.com. October 10, 1916.

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• Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

  Edward Bond

  Art, Expression, World

  Edward Bond (2013). “Lear”, p.12, A&C Black

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• I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I think, for example, the reason that I was perhaps able to see sooner than some others that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was decaying--if not disintegrating--was that I came to it through history and through Germany, rather than through Sovietology and through Moscow. And therefore the starting point was that no empire in history has lasted forever, and this one won't either.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Thinking, Europe, Forever

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• Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions.

  Jacques Chirac

  Religious, Hurt, Passion

  "Chirac warns media over cartoons". news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2006.

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• Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

  Stanley Fish

  Writing, Practice, Time Zones

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying into practice of religious principles and beliefs and convictions.

  Alan Keyes

  Religious, Exercise, Free Opinion

  Alan Keyes' Remarks at the Alabama Republican Assemblies Luncheon, www.keyesarchives.com. April 29, 2000.

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• For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.

  Ehud Olmert

  Believe, Years, Land

  Ehud Olmert's address to the Congress in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. May 24, 2006.

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• Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Philosophy, Practice, Style

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• Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it - a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Truth, Sacrifice, Ideas

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 606), 1895.

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• Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.

  John P. Kotter

  Feelings, Vision, Happens

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2015). “Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)”, p.114, Harvard Business Review Press

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• If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this : a deep regret for many bitter words I have used in my life, deep sincere repentance for my violence of language. But I hope they will be forgiven me by God and man, because not once in all my life have I attacked anybody unjustly from my point of view, and without believing it was my duty to do so.

  Henri Bourassa

  Regret, Believe, Men

  "Fiery Politician, Dies, The Globe and Mail" by Henri Bourassa, p. A1, September 1, 1952.

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• It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is not a magic bullet in post-conviction cases.

  Chris Asplen

  Powerful, Thinking, Magic

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• Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

  Jim Rowe

  Track, Feelings, Example

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• The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Religious, People, Firsts

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• It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Common Sense, Principles, Strange

  "The order of Nature". Book by awrence Joseph Henderson, Ch. 5, 1917.

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• Faith creates the foundation for conviction.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Faith, Foundation

  Simon Soloveychik (2010). “Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?”, p.141, Aigul Aubanova

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• The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his, or its, convictions. ... There is a degree of complicity, or mutual respect, between the believer and the man who attacks his beliefs (the revolutionary), for the latter takes them seriously.

  John Carroll

  Men, Groups, Degrees

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.43, Taylor & Francis

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