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• I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

  Eric Burdon

  Suicide, Thinking, Way

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• The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats and the media, is that Washington dysfunction is the work of the Party of No. Expose the real agent of do-nothing. Show that, when Harry Reid can no longer consign House-passed legislation to oblivion, Congress can actually work.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Real, Party, Opportunity

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• When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Lost Youth, Being A Woman

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Survival, Needs, Use

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• Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Oil, America, Environmental

  "The Tar Sands Disaster". www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2013.

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• A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Sailing, Boat

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.429, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

  David Limbaugh

  Running, Winning, Issues

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• Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom.

  Germaine Greer

  Girl, Clever, Men

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Rivers, Law, Guy

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• Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

  Jim Rogers

  Opinion Leaders, People, Support

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• Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Brain, World

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• Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

  Seth Godin

  Successful, People, Generosity

  "The generosity boomerang". sethgodin.typepad.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Goal, Joy, Energy

  Jay Conrad Levinson, Grant W. Hicks (2003). “Guerrilla Marketing for Financial Advisors”, p.293, Trafford Publishing

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• When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .

  Sun Bin

  Elements, Tactics, Surprise

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• It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

  Myrtle Reed

  Trouble, Explaining, Explaining Things

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.19, Library of Alexandria

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• Advocacy of leaf protein as a human food is based on the undisputed fact that forage crops (such as lucerne) give a greater yield of protein than other types of crops. Even with conventional food crops there is more protein in the leafy parts than in the seeds or tubs that are usually harvested.

  Norman Pirie

  Yield, Giving, Tubs

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• The material world is all feminine. The feminine engergy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men (are of the feminine energy). We have to relinquish our ideas of gender in the conventional sense. This has nothing to do with gender, it has to do with energy. So feminine energy is what creates and allows anything which is non-manifest, like an idea, to come into form, into being, to be born. All that we experience in the world around us, absolutely everything (is feminine energy). The only way that anything exists is through the feminine force.

  Zeena Schreck

  Men, Ideas, Energy

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• When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Reality, People, Tree

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• Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Gabrielle Roth, John Loudon (1998). “Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit”, p.10, New World Library

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• My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

  Lauren Groff

  Childhood

  "Bit and peace: Lauren Groff’s Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

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• Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened acts that are serious offenses against the Constitution, its system of government, or the rule of law, or that are conventional crimes of such a serious nature that they would injure the Presidency if there was no removal.

  Ramsey Clark

  Mean, Government, Law

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• The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their support and request, despite them and indeed against them. It is absurd to pivot your whole project, as does a conventional party, on the submission of change to the decision of those who so need to be changed. You might as well make the case for law and order conditional on the approval of the criminals.

  Colin Jordan

  Party, Order, Law

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• A conventional ‘success’ story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. I’d like to suggest an alternative ‘success’ story – one where, with each next, the protagonist is closer to finding that spot where he’s no longer held back by his heart, and he explodes with talent, and his character blossoms, and the gift he has to offer the world is apparent.

  Po Bronson

  Heart, Character, Alternatives

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• Never accept conventional wisdom when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Want, Failing, Finance

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• When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

  George Eliot

  Children, Niece, Passion

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