#convention

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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Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. ↗

— John Fiske

#constructed #conventions #discursive #empirical #fidelity

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point. ↗

— Harold Ford

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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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People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#conventional #electronica #music #people #play

We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements. ↗

— Anna Lindh

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You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it. ↗

— Yoweri Museveni

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