Conventional Quotes - Page 28

• If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

  Muriel Spark

  Art, Trying, Patterns

  Muriel Spark (2015). “Robinson”, p.59, Canongate Books

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• When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Children, Lying

  Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

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• Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networks, programs. Also, alternative newspapers, which exist all over the country. Also, cable TV programs, which are not dependent on commercial advertising. Also, the internet, which can reach millions of people by-passing the conventional media.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Discovery, Media

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.

  Maria Rodale

  Choices, Rich, Clean Air

  Maria Rodale (2010). “Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe”, p.192, Rodale

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• I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics, the queen of the sciences up on top, down through a bunch of squishy subjects, ending up with sociology and psychology on the bottom. Palaeontologists are not much above that in their conventional ordering.

  Richard Lewontin

  Queens, Top Down, Psychology

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Greatness, Way, Study

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. II, 1938.

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• I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did.

  Dolores Hitchens

  Long, Exciting, Gave Up

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• I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.

  John Sebastian

  Guitar, Guy, Trying

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• I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.

  Anna Chancellor

  Cake, People, Recipes

  "My favourite table". Interview with Neil Norman, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2007.

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• The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not ("ne saurait", Fr.) find its full (or complete) satisfaction in the conventional (or superficial, - "conventionnel", Fr.) and deceitful world, in which (or where) everyone is mainly (or mostly) trying to assert oneself in front of others ("devant les autres", Fr.), to appear, and hoping to find in society ("mondaine", Fr.) relationships some advantages for his interest and vanity (or vainglory or conceit", Fr).

  African Spir

  Men, Vanity, Trying

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 53), 1937.

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• The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.

  William Gibson

  People, Way, Culture

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.

  Steve Case

  People, Perception, Genius

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