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I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions.


Edith Rogers

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JAMES GARFIELD Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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GOODLUCK JONATHAN The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
HENRY CATE The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
ROBERT FROST The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
HENRY CATE VII It takes a disciplined person to listen to convictions which are different from their own.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
LEO TOLSTOY Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.
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SUSAN CARTWRIGHT I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
JOSE SARAMAGO Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.
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MICHELLE BACHELET People who give up their own land too readily need careful weighing, exactly as do those who are so ...
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ELIE WIESEL Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that plac...
ELIE WIESEL Religious political groups and their congressional allies overreached.
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BEN EDWARDS He's got strong convictions, maybe he's thinking that is what he's got to do.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nevertheless, her own political philosophy could have been stated baldly (which it never was) as a b...
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G.K. CHESTERTON Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
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PATRICIA IRELAND Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions
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ANN OAKLEY The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess s...
RAY ROMANO It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
EPICTETUS All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the futu...
GEORGE ORWELL It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI Managers, instead of following their convictions, are following the crowd. There is a herd instinct.
DAVID HERRO It has well been said that an opinion is something that you hold, but a conviction is something that...
WARREN W. WIERSBE We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
EMIL M. CIORAN I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I th...
ANITA HILL The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.
FREDERIC BASTIAT What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promi...
JIM DEMINT Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism...
DASHANNE STOKES Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Convictions are meaningless in the absence of resilience and tenacity. There is no bravery in having...
LORIANN ZEMANOVICH These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, w...
JACQUES DELORS Such men and women leave the children to suffer with their grandparents, who cannot take care of the...
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MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous p...
ANDRZEJ WAJDA Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for na...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM The government should not spy on groups engaging in peaceful political protest. The FBI should focus...
KATHLEEN TAYLOR During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that ques...
EVERETT DIRKSEN I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identifi...
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MARY LAMBERT I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity sect...
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ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE It is a Blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough to stand by his own...
ROBERT INGERSOLL The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
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RICK RENZI I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his politic...
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BEN BROCKWELL I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack...
IMELDA MAY We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...
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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL We hope the report won't sit on the shelf somewhere but that it actually gets into the currency of p...
ALICE RIVLIN We hope the report won't sit on the shelf somewhere but that it actually gets into the currency of p...
ALICE M. RIVLIN Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
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COVENTRY PATMORE It is reprehensible that some elected officials are looking to score political points in the wake of...
TOM REYNOLDS I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey.
EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Las...
EDITH CAVELL