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• There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

  Ben Horowitz

  Knowing Nothing, Shortcuts, Knowledge Gained

  Ben Horowitz (2014). “The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it is until you wait until you can afford organic, or you can find organic.

  Michael Pollan

  Vegetables, Talking, Waiting

  "Michael Moss, Michael Pollan Go Food Shopping, Make Lunch Together", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2013.

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• At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious, more work than play; and that passion is for teenagers and the immature. We must unpack our ambivalence about pleasure, and challenge our pervasive discomfort with sexuality, particularly in the context of family. Complaining of sexual boredom is easy and conventional. Nurturing eroticism in the home is an act of open defience.

  Esther Perel

  Teenager, Passion, Home

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• All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

  Henry Petroski

  Design, Ensemble, Elements

  "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". Interview with Henry Petroski, appel.nasa.gov. July 20, 2006.

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• It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'

  Dario Fo

  Writing, Breathing, Technique

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• The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Reality, Quality

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Giving

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.9, New World Library

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• The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

  Scott Belsky

  Achievement, Vision, Definitions

  Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.149, Penguin

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• In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

  Lea Salonga

  Song, Book, Missing

  "SOUND OFF Special Interview: Lea Salonga". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. November 11, 2010.

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• People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales the conventional notions of justice, freedom, law and order, nature, family, etc. The writer, lone rider, has the power, if not always the skills, wisdom, or desire, to disturb this false contentment.

  Robert Coover

  Hands, Order, Law

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• Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Patriotic, Judging

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• Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

  Jacques Derrida

  Mean, Survival, Term

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• He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.

  Colin Powell

  Mass Destruction, Hussein, Weapons

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• The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

  Ed Miliband

  Wisdom, Challenges, Progress

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

  Bill Laswell

  Play, People, Valuable

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• The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.

  Alison Lurie

  Children, Views, Shopping

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• The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Attitude, Men

  Thomas Merton (1960). “Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.16, Liturgical Press

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• Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.

  Arianna Huffington

  Stress, Giving, Goal

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• That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.

  Felicia Day

  Mean, Dreamer, Rebel

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• The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.

  William Kentridge

  Understanding, World, Rupture

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• Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Society, Doe

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• Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.

  Nigel Lawson

  Country, Wind, Environmental

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• What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.

  James L. Buckley

  Two Sides, Issues, Campaigns

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• It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

  Adam Schiff

  Wisdom, War, Iraq

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• I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

  Diane Wakoski

  Sex, Attitude, Thinking

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