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I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.


Maria Bartiromo


#conventional wisdom #i #i can #manager #money

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


#been #convention #democratic #getting #had

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.


Xun Zi


#changed #conventions #courtesy #first #guided

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 #change #conventions #each #face

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.


Alastair Campbell


#boil #clinton #conventional #conventional wisdom #down

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.


Noam Chomsky


#doctrines #either #else #everybody #like

Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.


Barbara Mikulski


#am #attorney #attorney general #conventions #court

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.


Daniel Okrent


#conservative #conventional #i #i think #libertarian

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.


Carroll O'Connor


#hated #held #objects #satire #savvy

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.


Barack Obama


#america #convention #everything #friends #happy






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