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• I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is good because of a check and a balance. What I believe happens all too often, regardless of which party is there's gridlock. And I think the better argument is give one party a chance, give them a chance with a House and a Senate and a president. Give them a few years to see what they can do. And if you don't like it, put another party in.

  Scott Walker

  Believe, Party, Thinking

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• I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are just conventional. I hope they are true whenever I read it of someone. [But] I would rather be awake. Peacefully awake, brim full of some calming drug that was seeing me out of the door, having said my farewells.

  Ian Mcewan

  Farewell, Sleep, Doors

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Hero, Evil

  Interview with The A.V. Club, film.avclub.com. September 20, 2007.

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• Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

  Kevin Costner

  Scary, What If, Conventional Wisdom

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• Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

  Kevin Costner

  Artist, Trouble, Conventional Wisdom

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• I refuse to live a conventional life.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Refuse, Conventional Life

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a prevailing conventional wisdom that I think is really wrong. That's not to say that television writers aren't great, but I think that the belief that some comedy writer's going to be able to capture your voice is naive.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The emotional build-up and anticipation if you travel at Christmas can make it harder to enjoy a trip. I think sometimes it is better to travel outside of conventional holiday times for that reason.

  Chris Hadfield

  Holiday, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Sun Tzu's ideas as expressed above had a profound effect on Ho Chi Minh, who sought to defeat both the French and the Americans without recourse to violence - or at least to conventional battle tactics.

  William J. Duiker

  Ideas, Profound, Battle

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• It's important to at least break through many of the conventional approaches. I'm not sure my way is better. I will say it's a new alternative, at least. I think my personal contribution over the last 25 years has really been to give a lot of young entrepreneurs a lot of hope: Acer can, they can. Stan can, they can.

  Stan Shih

  Thinking, Young Entrepreneurs, Years

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• European security may now depend on Germany, France, Britain and one or two others, and it's better to start planning now for the possibility of European-only cyber-defense, counter-terrorism, and conventional defense too.

  Anne Applebaum

  Two, France, Germany

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Strong, Reality, Men

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• Unless this [Barack Obama] American administration is willing to diverge from the conventional American policy in the Middle East by changing its basic attitudes on crucial questions, foremost of them Palestine, and support genuinely the rights of people for independence, sovereignty and identity across the board, the only "resolve" one would hope from the USA is to stay out of the Middle East for a while.

  Ilan Pappe

  Attitude, Usa, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The worst crimes against humanity in the last half of the previous century and this century are carried out with conventional advanced weapons, upgraded daily by a greedy arms industry, super power's apathy and criminal ideologies. In the Middle East, Iran lags behind many other military powers in this respect.

  Ilan Pappe

  Military, Iran, Humanity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed in recent years, the dissemination of these more updated views fails to reach the conventional educational system. For two main reasons: Politics can still subdue and censor views that are not endorsed ideologically, and academics have still not learned how to write openly, directly and, one should say, courageously about these issues.

  Ilan Pappe

  Educational, Writing, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

  Ross Douthat

  Catholic, Intellectual, Church

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're playing a festival, people come to see music in general - so don't be fearful. The people are there to enjoy and discover new music so approach the show with confidence and optimism.

  Vince Staples

  Artist, People, Optimism

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts, are we in Iraq to help restore something, or are we there to establish dominance? How can you torture people and say, well, that's just a few bad apples in our culture?

  Dar Williams

  Heart, Rivers, Iraq

  Source: progressive.org

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• Conventional sports have undergone an evolution in training methods during the last fifty years. Curiosity and the inherent improvement brought about by competition have driven this evolution to a state of high refinement such that today's athletes have a very specialized approach to training at the elite levels.

  Steve House

  Sports, Athlete, Years

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

  Steve House

  Sports, Training, Done

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, "You know, this speech is too long," or "It's too complicated," or "He needs to have better sound bites," or what have you.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Media, Long

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Especially without coverage, we have made it to 4, 5, 6% in the polls just on the power of the public interest out there from Americans who feel like they've been thrown under the bus by the two conventional parties.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Two, Polls

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• In a corporate context, companies have to try very hard to oppose the enticements of conventional wisdom. They must aim for the leaps, which means that companies have to do more than simply manage their knowledge, which is composed of the insights and understandings they already know. They also have to manage the knowledge-generation process. It's not just about, "Oh, we're going to create a data warehouse and we are going to invent a computerized filing system to get at all the stuff we know."

  John Kao

  Mean, Data, Understanding

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• You need judgment, you need to utilize conventional resource-allocation analysis, you have to work backward from estimations of the market to the current investments and you have to do some benchmarking of your product and its potential against your competition.

  John Kao

  Competition, Needs, Analysis

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• The conventional asset-allocation method is like sheet music. It is prescribed, it has right answers and wrong answers and it sounds about the same every time. But jamming is different. Jamming is when you make the music. When you improvise and adapt to conditions. When you are creative.

  John Kao

  Creative, Sound, Different

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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