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


Denis Diderot


#conventions #despicable #human #human nature #nature

I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.


David Lloyd


#am #artists #because #board #conventions

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.


Anne Perry


#been #conventions #deal #excellent #extraordinarily

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.


Jon Postel


#administer #also #assigned #authority #central

It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.


John H. Reagan


#conventions #currency #declaration #every #giving

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.


George Santayana


#conventions #courtesy #doubts #far #kind

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.


William Shatner


#been #conventions #discovery #filled #happened

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.


Paul Signac


#anarchist #conventions #create #fight #his

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.


John Yoo


#applies #because #between #conflict #conflicts

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.


John Yoo


#combatants #command #conduct #conventions #failing






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