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• Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or I don't care about it. And if I don't care about it, then I don't think anyone listening to it will, either.

  Chris Cornell

  Thinking, Listening, Levels

  "'Maybe Sincerity Is The New Punk': Chris Cornell On Embracing Space". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. September 13, 2015.

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• While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Anxiety, Finishing, Unnecessary

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• Lord, enable us to search our hearts and humble ourselves before Thee. Oh, for a closer walk with God, more faith, more sincerity, more earnestness, and more love. I must study more the Word of God. 'If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.' The Master said so, and His words are true.

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay

  Heart, Humble, Missionary

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• Sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they are changed by it. Changed by it, they are transformed. It is only he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can transform.

  Confucius

  Heaven, Brilliant, Influence

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Men, Deception

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Real, Inspiration, Light

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.26, Library of Alexandria

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• The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Honesty, Philosophy, Farewell

  "Parerga and Paralipomena" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 22), 1974.

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• The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thinking, Bridges, Meditation

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• We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Honesty, Government, Needs

  "Kevorkian Plans Congressional Run" by Ken Thomas, www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2008.

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• Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.

  Dorothy Sarnoff

  Eye, Trying, Looks

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• Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

  Kate Smith

  Intelligent, Analysis, Adherence

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• Sincerity is moral truth.

  George Henry Lewes

  Moral

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.

  Hu Jintao

  Love, Country, Peace

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• I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Trust, Criticism, Anticipate

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• The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

  George Oppen

  Honesty, Firsts, Honest

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• At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

  Lionel Blue

  Religious, Book, Class

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• All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Regret

  The Dalai Lama (2008). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World”, p.71, Parallax Press

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• [Hollywood] is obviously so fake, but then comedy is this little carve-out of sincerity. I love it. I get to be funny and do this.

  Ilana Glazer

  Fake, Hollywood, Littles

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

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• To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Appreciation, May, Action

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• As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Progress

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.436

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• Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Believe, May

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• Just play with sincerity, give the performance of your life with everything you've got.

  KAORI

  Play, Giving, Performances

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• ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way director Gray uses the conventions of romantic melodrama.

  A. O. Scott

  Directors, Use, Way

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• It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Important, Serious, Seriousness

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