Conviction Quote by Maxwell Perkins

“It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.”

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Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

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You have to throw yourself away when you write.

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Once you pull the trigger, you've got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction.

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“Desert are you, deluge are you, in a crowd of fakes, only truth is you.”

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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice,…

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'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live…

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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts…

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Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in…

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