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• Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Notion, Persons

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Thinking, Force, Solutions

  "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age". "Zero Hour", openvault.wgbh.org. 1987.

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• The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make up for a actual or perceived disequilibrium in the conventional field by having more nuclear weapons.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Quality, Different, Nuclear

  WGBH-TV Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.

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• It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

  Reid Hoffman

  These Days

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• Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.

  Barbara Mertz

  Race, History, Half

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• First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

  William of Ockham

  Firsts, Language, Term

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• When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is rally hideous, and 'compassionate' and 'certified humane' or whatever, which 'may' be 'slightly' less hideous. But it is all torture. It's all wrong. These 'happy' gimmicks are just designed to make the public feel better about exploiting animals. Don't buy the propaganda of 'happy' exploitation. Go vegan and promote veganism.

  Gary L. Francione

  Feel Better, Animal, Agriculture

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• I like baked potatoes. I don't have a microwave oven, and it takes forever to bake a potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I'll just throw one in there, even if I don't want one, because by the time it's done, who knows?

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Forever

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• Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

  FM-2030

  Past, Ethnicity, Years

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• A conventional person can be restrained by the prejudices of its tradition. Convention has too many prejudicial restraints. But unconventional is good, because what happens is the heart is open, it's free, it's non-judgmental. It's not accommodating, but it's embracing, there is a difference. To accommodate means it's already condescending, you condescend to accommodate. To embrace is free, it's totally free.

  Maya Tiwari

  Heart, Mean, Differences

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.

  Willa Cather

  Children, Husband, Grandmother

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.136, U of Nebraska Press

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• In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Expression, Choices

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Poetry, Sound

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• No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Powerful, Clever, Long

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Animal, Mind, Special

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• Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Prayer, Men, Joy

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• Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we [in US] start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to energy, we're never going to get there.

  Sarah Palin

  Keys, Alternatives, Energy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as conventional as you can imagine: I wanted to know if it was really true that it was the land of opportunity, of democracy, and individual liberty.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Opportunity, Land, Democracy

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.46, Melville House

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• There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things you can't do in every square, that you can do in some of them, building a mosaic of these kinds of practices. There are about 400 cable television networks, for example, that are publicly owned. That's a big fight for big private companies. In some areas, this is a political struggle, in some it's conventional common sense.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Struggle, Moving, Fighting

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The problems with conventional parking meters are myriad. Nevertheless, two advanced technologies, multispace parking meters and curb-space occupancy sensors, can make it much easier for users to pay for curb parking, and for cities to adjust prices to meet the demand.

  Donald Shoup

  Technology, Cities, Parking Meters

  Source: translib.blogspot.com

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• I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a nonconventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you...

  Hugh Shelton

  War, Believe, Mean

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

  Charlotte Bronte

  Thinking, Impossible, Natural

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.117, Penguin

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• Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Courage, Soul

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.145, Shambhala Publications

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• Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beauty, Beautiful, Careers

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• I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.

  Temple Grandin

  Believe, Mean, Animal

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