#conviction

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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.


Tom Wolfe


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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.


William Butler Yeats


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And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.


Pia Zadora


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Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.


Elizabeth Gilbert


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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.


Mikhail Gorbachev


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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.


Stephen Jay Gould


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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.


Asa Gray


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In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.


Simon Greenleaf


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Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.


Franz Grillparzer


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