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Letter "C" » conviction
«Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child?s spirit.»
Author: Erik Erikson, Dr.
| Keywords:
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«Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
conviction, diagnoses, diagnosis, excessively, extremism, identifiable, ills, ingredients, involves, prime, primed, villains
«The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.»
Author: Robert Anderson
| About:
Actors and acting,
Writers,
Writing
| Keywords:
concerns, conviction, mission, missions, Mission of, of course, Passion play, playwright, playwrights, The Mission, the play
«The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Life,
Love
| Keywords:
conviction, greatest, happiness, loved, rather, spite, The Greatest
«The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.»
«The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
conviction, intensities, intensity, passionate
«The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience»
«That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
God,
Power
| Keywords:
conviction, emotional, forms, incomprehensible, presence, presence of God, reasoning, revealed, superior
«The prize reaffirms our conviction that with truth, courage and determination as our weapons, Tibet will be liberated. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
conviction, free of, liberated, non violent, prize, reaffirm, reaffirmed, reaffirming, reaffirms, The Prize, Tibet, violent, weapons
«There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
arrives, conviction, envy, imitation, imitations, suicide, suicides
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