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• There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Lonely, Sacrifice, Doubt

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• Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Eye, Thinking, Years

  "Fictional character: Linus Van Pelt". "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Achievement, Steps, Oneself

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• It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Christ, Salvation

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• The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

  James Marsden

  Character, Ridiculous

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• I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians say that "human problems come first" I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Giving, Support

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• To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, School, Self Confidence

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• You should get completely detached about everything and you will enjoy, just enjoy. But in that also, one has to judge. Are you really enjoying or are you just making a drama out of it? Try to be sincere. Purity is brought forth by sincerity. If you are not sincere to yourself and to others, you cannot be pure.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Drama

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• We must understand that our education now is going to be sincerity, to speak from your own heart and not from outside.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

  Stephen Charnock

  Perfection, May, Worship

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• The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our masks. Creativity, especially where acting is concerned, Is boundless sincerity, yet disciplined.

  Jerzy Grotowski

  Creativity, Play, Important

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• Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  4th Of July, Mean, America

  Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

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• I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

  Elvin Jones

  Music, People, Done

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  Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Art, People

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, "You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress." Too often I never get to say that when it should be said. Instead, I leave them with the equivalent of a "Later, dude!" only to discover there would be no later for us.

  Kevin Hearne

  Kindness, Regret, Stress

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.716, Del Rey

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• The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

  Ann Patchett

  Quality, Giver, Depends

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• Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

  Rafael Sabatini

  Book, Men, Hypocrisy

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• In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right - that's me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I've been selling the hell out of that ever since I started.

  John Wayne

  Character, Boys, Simple

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• I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.

  Malcolm X

  Mistake, Want, Sincere

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• Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lakes, Perfect, Transparency

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2018, Delphi Classics

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• RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Oil, Law

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.203, University of Georgia Press

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• Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Hurt, Men, Light

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.12

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• In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life.
  I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment.
  But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity.

  Rumi

  Fake, Needs, Facts

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• Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

  Alan Watts

  Truth, Lying, Heart

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.38, New World Library

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• He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Real, Purpose, Life Is

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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