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• I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

  Richard Wagner

  Fall, Long, Desire

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• I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

  Alice Walker

  Men, Delight, Enough

  "No retreat" by Sara Wajid, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2006.

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• See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

  Orson Welles

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

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• I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

  Shaun White

  Funny, Jeans, Black

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• I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

  Olivia Wilde

  Pain, Mean, Doctors

  "Olivia Wilde's 'House' Call". Interview, parade.com. November 12, 2008.

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• I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

  Thornton Wilder

  Unhappy Childhood, Atheism, Essentials

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Stupid, Resemblance Is, Too Much

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• Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

  Carter G. Woodson

  School, Inferiority

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.2, Book Tree

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• When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

  Al Yankovic

  Kids, Years, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and support views that are upheld and defended by many law-abiding citizens, the only way to tackle them is through democratic debate.

  Julian Baggini

  Views, Law, Evil

  "Speakers' corner" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2008.

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• The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

  Julian Baggini

  Philosophical, Alternatives, World

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• I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

  Felix Dennis

  Redeemed

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• The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

  James Beard

  Food, Cooking, Secret

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• From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Country, Talking

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.104, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

  L. Frank Baum

  Common Folk, People, Tree

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “30+ FANTASY ADVENTURES & FAIRY TALES – Ultimate Collection (Magical World Series): The Wizard of Oz Series, Dot and Tot of Merryland, Mother Goose in Prose, The Magical Monarch of Mo, American Fairy Tales, The Master Key, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Sea Fairies…”, p.234, e-artnow

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• I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

  Ron Paul

  Giving Up, Thinking, Liberty

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 4, 2008.

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• She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.

  Julio Cortazar

  Life, Writing, Opposites

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.49, Everyman's Library

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• And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Irrelevance, Differences, Long

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• All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Believe, Writing

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

  Diane Setterfield

  Believe, Taken, Mean

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

  Aristotle

  Faith, Education, Art

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

  Booker T. Washington

  Life, Opportunity, Dying

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Creativity, Conformity

  R. Buckminster Fuller “World Design Science Decade: Phase 1 Document 2”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Atheist, Science, Religion

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• But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place...and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since.

  Neal Stephenson

  Fall, Opposites, People

  "Quicksilver". Book by Neal Stephenson, September 23, 2003.

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