Conventions Quotes - Page 32

• By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.

  Democritus

  Sweet, Truth, Real

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

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• All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. The only possible step that could be taken towards it by the convention was to fix a period after which they should not be imported.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Taken, Men, Race

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• New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.

  Lawren Harris

  Challenges, Demand, Methodology

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• Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.

  Man Ray

  Laughter, Criticism, Limits

  Man Ray (1934). “Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  War, Years, Drug

  "Guatemalan President Praises Colorado and Washington for Marijuana Legalization at UN Speech" By Daniel Robelo, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Imagination, Release, Restriction

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