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• I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.
  ' -- Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)...
• Confidence is that wonderful feeling of self-assurance you have just before you fall flat on your face at high noon in the most public of places and in the most foolish manner possible before the largest crowd of people ever known to be in that place at that time in all recorded history.
• This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 293...
• In quietness and confidence will be your strength... -- Isaiah
• Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.
• Confidence is simply that quiet, assured feeling you have before you fall flag on your face.
  -- Dr. L. Binde...
• I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it. -- Alfred Hitchcock
• I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it. -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
• I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.
  -- Edgar Allan Poe...