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convictions
«The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings»
Author: Clark Moustakas
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beliefs, convictions, declaration, expresses, express feelings, feelings, increasingly, ownership, The Stand, values
«Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.»
Author: Frank Gifford
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convictions
«We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.»
«We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.»
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
(President)
| Keywords:
abandon, abandoning, convictions, Traditions, urge
«The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| About:
Revolution,
Science
| Keywords:
arrogance, centrality, convictions, cosmos, dethronement, feature, include, pedestal, pedestals, previous, revolutions, scientific
«Out of passions grow opinions; mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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convictions, lets, mental, opinions, passions, rigidify, sloth, these
«Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Tolerance
| Keywords:
convictions, tolerance, virtue
«There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Speech
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apparatus, convictions, debauch, debauched, debauching, Delusions, fuddle, oratory, persuasive, practiced, The Mental, tricks, upset