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“(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment or...”
“Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest and they are rare.”
“The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
“Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.”
“Every dogma has its day.”
“A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.”
“Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.”
“Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.”
“I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.”
“rush of pine scent (once upon a time),the unlicensed convictionthere ought to be another wayof sayingthis.”
“I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me...”
“One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, ...”
“The crowd, in fact, is composed of individuals; it must therefore be in every man's power to become what he is, an individual. From becoming an individual no one, no one at all, is excluded, except...”
“You need energy and purpose to become the person you’re destined to be.”
“I believe that sexual offenders and predators should be released…as long as it is mandatory they get to move into the house next door to the judge that released them.”
“Conviction, then, is no part of a sinner’s salvation—but the clear practical knowledge of the fact that he cannot save himself, and is entirely dependent on the saving grace of God.”
“A good presentation = Conviction + Story + Message. Subject does't matter.”
“If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.”
“Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.”
“He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it.""Then, it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed ...”
