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• The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no… — Albert Einstein
• The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our… — Heber Doust Curtis
• Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness. — Neville Goddard
• Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old… — Plato
• He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as… — George Bernard Shaw
• Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. — Walter Benjamin
• Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the… — Charles Spurgeon
• One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's… — Leo Steinberg
• He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible,… — Franz Kafka
• To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to… — John Gardner
• His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego… — Yukio Mishima

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