#convinced

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back. ↗

— Charles Hamilton Houston

#convinced #could #dying #fellow #fellow americans

The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant. ↗

— Bill Johnson

#actually #american #american people #because #company

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt. ↗

— James McGreevey

#ashamed #best #convinced #dishonesty #felt

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. ↗

— Marie Louise

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. ↗

— Jane Austen

#convinced #i #i am #i can #know

Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

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Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. ↗

— Johann Most

#commonwealth #communists #convinced #establishment #improvement

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#anything #been #bush #convinced #decisions

A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I'm always convinced I'm not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it's hard with a kiss. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#always #anyone #anything #been #camera

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. ↗

— John McCarthy

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