People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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War of any kind is abhorrent. Remember that since the end of World War II, over 40 million people have been killed by conventional weapons. So, if we should succeed in averting nuclear war, we must not let ourselves be sold the alternative of conventional weapons for killing our fellow men. We must cure ourselves of the habit of war.
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The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
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There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.
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I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
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I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure.
quote by Eva Mendes
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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
quote by Bob Woodward
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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.
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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.
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I've come to accept that physical appearance is part of the package you have to offer. Rightly or wrongly, mainstream movies are driven by conventional requirements. And, unless you are reconciled to that, you're going to be continually frustrated and driven insane.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
quote by Golda Meir
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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
quote by Anna Quindlen
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I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.
I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.
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States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
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Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.
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Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
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Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.
quote by Paul Farmer
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A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
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