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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 lead a very conventional life.


Joan Didion


#i #lead #life #very

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.


Carl Clinton Van Doren


#bandit #between #conventional #deadly #georgia

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


Olafur Eliasson


#berlin #city #conventional #european #extreme

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.


Alan Dean Foster


#business #con #convention #decades #fantasy

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.


Carlos Fuentes


#conventions #geneva #ghraib #happened #human

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.


R. Buckminster Fuller


#conventional #conventional way #doing #fresh #just

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.


Bill Gates


#capitalism #causes #diseases #done #down

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.


Henry Louis Gates


#among #basis #betterment #between #black

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.


Theophile Gautier


#beauty #care #choice #detail #execution






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