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• Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Love Is, World, Beads

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• I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.

  Paul Broun

  President, United States, Use

  "Did Rep. Paul Broun Flub 'Who is going to shoot Obama?' query?". Statement, www.csmonitor.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

  Julian Baggini

  Thinking, Charity, Modesty

  "Give me a reasonable believer over an uncompromising atheist any day" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2012.

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• [On Richard M. Nixon:] The Republican nominee would be far worse than another Eisenhower - he is Tricky Dicky of the first magnitude. His entire record is one of opportunism. I cannot feel that there is the remotest sincerity in him, and that clearly he would be the tool of the highest bidder, which is always 'big business.

  Marguerite Rawalt

  Would Be, Tools, Records

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• The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

  Riz Ahmed

  People, Doubt, Acting

  "Q&A: Riz Ahmed". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2010.

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• Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.

  Fatima bint Muhammad

  Fasting, Firmness

  "Ayan al-Shī'ah". Book by Fatima bint Muhammad, vol.1, p. 316,

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• Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

  Mason Cooley

  Willingness

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• I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

  Kurt Cobain

  Strong, Opinion, Truthful

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• Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Livelihood, Suspicious, Depends

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• Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

  Eric Cantona

  Children, Authenticity

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• Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Profound, Talent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

  F. H. Bradley

  People

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• Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Soul, Quality, Given

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• The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential decency of our fellow citizens on the other side.

  Edward Kennedy

  Feelings, Essentials, Citizens

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• Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  True Or False, Martyr, Correctness

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.774, Library of Alexandria

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• The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Practice, Mind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.277

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• Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

  Confucius

  Would Be, Ends

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.418, Courier Corporation

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• The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

  E. B. White

  Simplicity, Style, Beginners

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.190, Cornell University Press

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• I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but near things of this living, was the only kind of creative work which I could accomplish with any sincerity or grace. As a reporter, I was a flop, because I always came back laden not with facts about the case, but with a mind full of the little difficulties and amusements I had encountered in my travels.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Heart, Long

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• The sincerity with which you do things, that's what shapes your life.

  Blake Griffin

  Shapes

  Source: www.gq.com

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• You must have patience with others because, if you do not have patience, your sincerity will start doubting itself. So you must have patience and to get patience you must know what you have been so far and where are you. When you will know what you were, you will have patience with others, tremendous patience. And by having patience with others, your sincerity will be all the time complete. By your sincerity, you will be completely integrated.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Clever, Men, Fake

  Brandon Sanderson (2012). “The Emperor's Soul”, p.77, Tachyon Publications

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• Though she hated to stop kissing, Luce held Daniel's warm face in her hands. She gazed into his violet eyes, trying to draw strength. "I'm sorry," she said. "For running off like I did." "Don't be," he said,slowly and with absolute sincerity. "You had to go. It was preordained; it had to happen." He smiled again. "We did what we needed to do,Lucinda." A jet of warmth shot through her,making her dizzy. "I was starting to think I'd never see you again." "How many times have I told you that I will always find you?

  Lauren Kate

  Running, Sorry, Eye

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• I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into the Other World', and with his belief that drugs can procure 'what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace'. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

  Arthur Koestler

  Philosophy, Doors, Other Worlds

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• [Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, Franklin would score himself on whether he practiced those thirteen virtues.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Humility, Order, Justice

  Gretchen Rubin (2009). “The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.8, Harper Collins

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