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I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
Anton Szandor LaVey
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You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Gustav Mahler
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
Daniel Gillies
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What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
Yoweri Museveni
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A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.
Michael Chertoff
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I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.
Bill Brandt
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
Sri Aurobindo
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What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.
Jacques Derrida
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Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.
John Yoo
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This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
Wilhelm Keitel
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If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?
Charles Schumer
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The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.
Peter Singer
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The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial.
Victor Turner
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[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.
Thomas Jefferson
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The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.
Mark Twain
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Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
Bryce Courtenay
19.
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
John Yoo
20.
What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
Dave Mustaine
21.
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Denis Diderot
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New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.
Lisette Model
23.
It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.
Steve Vai
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As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.
Annia Ciezadlo
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Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.
Richie Benaud
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Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.
Karl Marx
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President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.
John Yoo
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Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended
Benjamin Franklin
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
Irving Babbitt
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The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.
Ugo Betti
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I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.
Hunter S. Thompson
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One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
Sol LeWitt
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I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.
Nichelle Nichols
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Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
Alan Watts
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Convention is the ruler of all.
Pindar
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Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.
Mason Cooley
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Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.
Julia Ward Howe
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No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
W. Somerset Maugham
44.
Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
Jane Byrne
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All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.
Jeremy Bulloch
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I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
Carol Bellamy
48.
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
Anthony Kiedis
49.
As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.
Kool Keith
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I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.
Anton Chekhov