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James Freeman Clarke Quote: 'Strong convictions precede great actions. ...'

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Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.
Moses Mendelssohn
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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.


Douglas Horton
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.


Thomas a Kempis
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.


Karl Kraus
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Virginia Woolf
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The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection.
William M. Daley
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A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
Max Frisch
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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.


Fernando Botero
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There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.


Pink
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.


Jean Rostand
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I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.


Joichi Ito
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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?


John Calvin
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.


Dag Hammarskjold
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Faced with terror, France must be strong, it must be great, and the state authorities must be firm.


Francois Hollande
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The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.
Nancy Pearcey
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I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.


Bono
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The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.


Swami Vivekananda
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I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
David Brainerd
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