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Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

~Franz Liszt

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And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.

~Frederick Sanger

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I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.

~Friedrich August Von Hayek

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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.

~Gary Mccord

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

Topics: Conviction Could Good Idle Many Minds Reason Sure Wanted

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

~George Bernard Shaw

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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

~George Eliot

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I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

~George Mason

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I think any politician, regardless of their religious conviction, has to be a megalomaniac - they have to be! Anyone who works in that kind of job has to be so full of himself to do that kind of thing.

~George Newbern

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