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Make sure you have that conviction to do what you know is right, and once you have it, don't let skeptics distract you from your path.

~Chanda Kochhar

Topics: Conviction Distract Know Make Once Path Right Sure You Your

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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Avail Conviction Decorative Everything Fluency Grace Lack Like Logical Man May Merely Nothing Oratory Order Speaker Still Surface Tact Will Without

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The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

~Charles Rosen

Topics: Belief Carries Coming Confidence Contact Conviction Direct Illusion Interpretation Intoxicating May Mistaken Needed Often Past Persuasive Result Sometimes Too

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The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

~Charles Trevelyan

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I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction. I understand that the various collateral consequences of the court-martial conviction will stay on my record forever. I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the U.S.D.B. as the person I was born to be.

~Chelsea Manning

Topics: Am Asking Born Chance Collateral Consequences Conviction First Forever Life Live Merely My Life Outside Pardon Person Record Stay Understand Various Will I Am I Was Born

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Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

~Christiane Amanpour

Topics: Children Conviction Course Definitely Full Get Get Married Indeed Interviewer Journalistic Married Most Never Once Passion Would

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Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

~Christina Hendricks

Topics: About Being Conviction Having Individual Sexiness

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Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Carries Conviction Defense Definition Families Family Flexible Liberals New Subscribe

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The 'Rule of Three' is simply getting the other guy to agree to the same thing three times in the same conversation, it's really hard to repeatedly lie or fake conviction.

~Christopher Voss

Topics: Agree Conversation Conviction Fake Getting Guy Hard Lie Other Really Repeatedly Rule Same Same Thing Simply Thing Three Times

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My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.

~Chuck Berry

Topics: Conviction Father Grew Married Once Ours Up Way

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