"The best lack all conviction, while the..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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“Pale brows, still hands and dim hair,I had a beautiful friendAnd dreamed that the old despairWould end in love in the end.”
“O heart, be at peace, becauseNor knave nor dolt can breakWhat's not for their applause,Being for a woman's sake.”
“So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.”
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“Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.”
“One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there's Barack Obama the person and there's Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power. And so when people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents.”
“I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.”
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“Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.”
“If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.”
“One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.”