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• Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.

  Thomas Menino

  Boston, Tonight, Host

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• President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

  John Yoo

  President, Conflict, Commanders

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• There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

  Charles Guggenheim

  War, Trying, Trials

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

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• Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

  Mary Cheney

  Keys, Heathers, Lows

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• We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

  T. S. Eliot

  Relationship, Memories, People

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

  Agnes Repplier

  Learning, Personality, Twenties

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• I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass jar with the metal screw lid on it that's full of ribbons and memorabilia from conventions and stuff. I've got buttons and I have all of my Walt Disney Mickey Mouse credit cards. I'm wondering in my old age if anyone would pay for a credit card with Mickey Mouse on it issued to me. I wonder if anyone would pay anything for that?

  Mike Royer

  Glasses, Age, Giants

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

  Patricia Briggs

  Book, Writing, Fiction

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• In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Social, Accepting, Process

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.38, Rowman Altamira

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• Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Independence, Constitutional Convention

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• For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.

  Northrop Frye

  Writing, People, Giving

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.451, University of Toronto Press

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• It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

  Virginia Woolf

  Food, Cooking, Novelists

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2616, Delphi Classics

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• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  George Steiner

  Broken, Silence, Society

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The left, of course, will say Carson doesn't believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn't believe in fighting stupid wars. And - and what we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars.

  Benjamin Carson

  Stupid, Military, War

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.

  Russell Brand

  Dancing, Needs, Faces

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's hard work. And it requires you learn certain skills.

  Charlie Huston

  Hard Work, Skills, Want

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• For me, on every project, I realize that I've boxed myself into a corner, or that the play necessitates some sort of theatrical convention that I realize I hate while I'm making it. So then the next play is always a rebellion. Or like, the thing I didn't even realize I was doing last time I will make sure I don't do this time. But there's always some other blind spot. And then that blind spot inspires the play that comes after.

  Annie Baker

  Hate, Play, Blind Spots

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

  Freya Stark

  Coins, Way, Easy

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Communication, Hero

  Interview with Peter Bebergal, believermag.com. June 1, 2013.

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• All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead.

  Havelock Ellis

  Beautiful, Lying, Past

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

  Jacques Barzun

  Equality, Sublime, Intellect

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

  Wallace Stegner

  Death, Pain, Book

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman can choose from an army of personae, femme to butch, and can cut or curl her hair or adorn herself with a staggering variety of artistic aids. But despite the Sixties experiments in peacock dress, no man can rise in the corporate world today, outside the entertainment industry, with long hair or makeup or purple velvet suits.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Cutting, Army

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• The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

  Russell Baker

  Dirty, Government, Political

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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