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Letter "C" » convictions
«Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.»
«It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.»
Author: Northrop Frye
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«Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Conviction
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«Last, but by no means least, courage - moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle - the roar of the crowd on one side and the»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
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«Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?»
«It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions»
«It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Lies
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«It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.»
«No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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