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Conventional Quotes

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The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
Steven Levitt

Authors on Conventional Quotes: Judith Martin Sinclair Lewis Leni Zumas Ralph Waldo Emerson Erich Fromm Jack Kevorkian Joan Didion Robert M. Gates George Harrison Reid Hoffman David Halberstam Lauren Groff Paul Fussell Martin Fleischmann Steven Levitt Helmut Schmidt Tim Curry Dontrelle Willis Kathleen Norris Peter Jennings Mumia Abu-Jamal Rush Limbaugh George R. R. Martin Richard Arnold Epstein Billy Corgan Margaret Deland Edgar Allan Poe J. K. Rowling John Thomas Sladek Simon Doonan Francoise Sagan Albert Einstein Elizabeth von Arnim
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Conventional wisdom would have one believe.
Mumia Abu-Jamal

3.
One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.
David Halberstam

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The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
Edgar Allan Poe

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Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?
Simon Doonan

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I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.
Tim Curry

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One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.
Robert M. Gates

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Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
Erich Fromm

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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
Jack Kevorkian

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I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life.
George Harrison

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Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.
Paul Fussell

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Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.
Kathleen Norris

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I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
Peter Jennings

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I reject most conventional wisdom.
Rush Limbaugh

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I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
George R. R. Martin

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In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
John Thomas Sladek

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I refuse to live a conventional life.
Madonna Ciccone

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I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.
Helmut Schmidt

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No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
Francoise Sagan

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The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.
Judith Martin

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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
Sinclair Lewis

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I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.
Leni Zumas

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I lead a very conventional life.
Joan Didion

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It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
Reid Hoffman

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My childhood was as conventional as you could get.
Lauren Groff

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You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.
Martin Fleischmann

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I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.
Dontrelle Willis

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There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk.
Richard Arnold Epstein

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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
Billy Corgan

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nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
Margaret Deland

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I have some problems with conventional organized religion.
J. K. Rowling

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Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.
Albert Einstein

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Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?
Elizabeth von Arnim