#convict

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#could #good #idle #many #minds

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art. ↗

— Maya Lin

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Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#color #conviction #experience #holds #only

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada. ↗

— Preston Manning

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Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. ↗

— John McCain

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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#convictions #even #kindness #made #many

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#authoritarianism #begin #conviction #corruption #defeating

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#care #coming #communicated #conviction #felt