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Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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I really do the conventions now for two reasons. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

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Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

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Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. ↗

— Nick Clooney

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

— Denis Diderot

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I lead a very conventional life. ↗

— Joan Didion

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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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