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Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.
Dan Jenkins
Funny
Truth
You
Jokes
Conviction
Unless
Point
Could
Nailed
Come
Make
Anybody
Them
We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction.
David Novak
Rights
Seriously
Conviction
Jews
Our
Willingly
Must
Status
Take
Attendant
Mission
Knowingly
Accept
Question
Duties
Confirm
Either
Happily
Who
Reject
I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.
David Petraeus
Will
Politician
Conviction
Say
Absolute
Never
Am
What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.
Dee Hock
Organization
Will
Important
Become
Conviction
Every
Way
Member
Clarity
Purpose
Absolute
Shared
Genetic
Institutional
Principles
Sort
Understands
Conduct
Common
Deep
Deep Conviction
Code
Set
My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.
Dhirubhai Ambani
Hope
Challenge
Negative
Face
Advice
Odds
Young
Conviction
Defeat
Entrepreneurs
Self-Confidence
Forces
Accept
I would say doing film is all about trust and conviction. It's about believing in an idea.
Diego Luna
Trust
Conviction
Say
Would
About
Idea
Doing
Film
Believing
It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
History
Reality
Will
Conviction
Side
Those
Find
Wrong
Wrong Side
Ultimately
Heaven
Themselves
Who
Disregard
When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.
Don Kardong
Conviction
Montreal
Some
Unsettling
Cheaters
Line
Were
Marathon
Olympic
Starting
Competitors
I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.
Donald Wuerl
Election
Conviction
Francis
Guided
Say
Total
Spirit
Holy
Holy Spirit
Pope
Chose
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
Dylan Thomas
Conviction
Think
Too
Typed
Harsh
Bad
Some
Poems
Until
Sort
Always
Least
Lends
Then
Certainty
Appear
Things
Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Value
Free
Master
Conviction
Emancipation
Must
Propriety
Voluntary
Performed
Any
Act
Slave
If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction.
Elizabeth Berg
Political
Humor
Master
Sit
Conviction
White
Though
Visit
Clarity
Could
Weep
He
Head
Over
Feet
Dead
Him
Understated
His
Authors
Just
If I Could
Awe
Right
I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.
Evan Bayh
Progress
Too Much
Conviction
Congress
Too
Enough
Had
Partisanship
Operating
Much
Should
Growing
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
Felix Adler
Time
Good
Day
Legal
Rest
Long
Long Time
Conviction
Community
Has-Been
General
General Good
Purposes
Weekly
Advantage
Employed
Institutions
Felt
Without
Been
Affecting
Existing
Might
Prejudice
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
Florence Scovel Shinn
Success
Failure
You
Will
Subconscious
Impress
Conviction
Until
Clicks
Making
Affirmation
Done
Which
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
Franz Grillparzer
Animals
Fools
Conviction
Indeed
Would
Only
Without
However
Human
Transcendental
Human Beings
Convinced
Notion
Beings
Need
And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.
Frederick Sanger
Knowledge
Matter
Understanding
Conviction
Research
Living
Our
Indeed
Has-Been
Intrinsic
Both
Could
Since
Because
Been
Contribute
Centre
Theme
Much
Fascination
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
Gary Hamel
Best
Business
Burden
Conviction
Believe
Resources
Markets
System
Scarce
Risk-Taking
Economic
Allocate
Entrepreneurship
Economic System
Rewards
Customer
Capitalist
Choice
Regulatory
Profession
Uses
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot
Conviction
Excessive
Offence
Literary
Social
Production
There is nothing we could do of greater importance than to have fortified in our individual lives an unshakable conviction that Jesus is the Christ, the living Son of the living God.
Gordon B. Hinckley
God
Son
Christ
Nothing
Conviction
Living
Our
Could
Individual
Unshakable
Importance
Greater
Greater Importance
Than
Fortified
Lives
Jesus
I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.
Greta Scacchi
You
Emotions
Fools
Feelings
Lovemaking
Conviction
Think
Other
Had
Sharing
Make
Overpowering
Person
Same
Imagining
Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
Guy Verhofstadt
Life
Strength
Great
You
Enemy
Safety
Fire
Own
Conviction
Find
Wounded
Risk
Friends
Brave
Where
Your
Bring
Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
Halima Aden
Life
You
Courage
Conviction
Live
Easy
Embrace
Takes
Feel
Blend
Like
Person
Your
Who
Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
Halldor Laxness
Life
Love
Respect
Humble
Everyday Life
Conviction
Everyday
Carried
Moral
Only
Commandment
Child
Which
Creatures
Routine
'Vicky Donor' or 'Madras Caf,' John's films have been path-breaking. I have full faith in the script of my movie, and my director, too, is a debutante. I like the conviction with which they work, and that gives me a lot of confidence.
Harshvardhan Rane
Work
Faith
Me
Confidence
Director
Conviction
Films
Too
John
Madras
Gives
Like
Been
Lot
Donor
Movie
Which
Script
Full
Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I don't believe the armed forces respond to a political party.
Henrique Capriles Radonski
Government
Political
Party
Conviction
Believe
Respond
Out
Would
Armed
Armed Forces
Democratic
Forces
Encounter
Stir
Political Party
Deep
Violence
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