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• Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.

  John Yoo

  Enemy, Doe, Different

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• I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.

  Todd Solondz

  Mean, Directors, Kind

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  Barbara Bush

  Blue, Mind, Waste

  TIME magazine, August 24, 1992.

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• The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.

  Ted Nelson

  Decision, Fields, Computer

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• I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.

  Nichelle Nichols

  Stars, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

  David Brinkley

  Mean, Moon, Keeping Promises

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• At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Confusion, Hospitality, Mets

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

  Bette Davis

  Respect, Funny Marriage, Ends

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

  Denis Diderot

  Human Nature, Should, Humans

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

  John Yoo

  Law, Criminals, Torture

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• Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

  Don Hewitt

  Thinking, Giving, News

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• Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

  Michael Beschloss

  Party, Leader, Half

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• I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

  Carol Bellamy

  Rights, Government, Bounds

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• Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

  Jane Haddam

  Writing, Fighting, Advice

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• Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

  Alcee Hastings

  Commitment, Years, Punishment

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• Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

  Jon Corzine

  Care, Deeds, Moral

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• Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

  Peter Shaffer

  Dark, Light, Play

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• I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.

  David Mitchell

  Waiting, Sound, Atlas

  "Fictional character: Robert Frobisher". "Cloud Atlas", 2012.

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• I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Routine, Daily Life, Share

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.29

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• So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

  Michael Beschloss

  Hard Times, People, Nominations

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• Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

  Steven Pinker

  Agreement, Choices, Community

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• Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Cutting, Editing

  Willa Cather (2013). “Willa Cather On Writing”, p.67, Knopf

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• The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Feelings, Lust

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.71, Routledge

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