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"He who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
— Alexander Hamilton

tags: bravery, conviction, ignorance, intelligence, stand, strength, stupidity, wisdom

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"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."
— Thomas Carlyle

tags: conviction

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"Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts. "
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: conviction, courage, god

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"To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either."
— Jane Austen

tags: conviction, persuasion, yield

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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
— Blaise Pascal

tags: conviction, evil

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"rush of pine scent (once upon a time),

the unlicensed conviction
there ought to be another way
of saying
this."
— Paul Celan (Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan)

tags: conviction, pine, poetry, saying

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