You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the… — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image
I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I always thought it'd be fun to go to a sci-fi convention, watch a bunch of Klingons walking around, all of that… — Michael Welch Copy Share Image
You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection,… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy;… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
Looking at the line-up of speakers at the (Democratic National) Convention, I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
Democritus sometimes does away with what appears to the senses, and says that none of these appears according to truth but only… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir,… — Robert Lacey Copy Share Image
In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history… — Ruth May Fox Copy Share Image
I thought it was remarkable in July [2016] when he pointedly declined to endorse Ted Cruz at the Republican convention, because I… — Josh Barro Copy Share Image
In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention. It's hard for me to see how members… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I play in a jazz sextet. So I don't have time to do a lot of conventions. The good thing is, when… — Peter Weller Copy Share Image
I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
When you had an ‘anam cara,’ (soul friend), your friendship cut across all convention and category. You were joined in an ancient… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around.… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV.… — Rik Mayall Copy Share Image
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
![“Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah. The committee informed us they had passed on W[oman] S[uffrage] being ten to five in favor.” quote by Ruth May Fox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b31/ruth-may-fox-274987_committees_presented-memorial-to-constitutional-con_1614044.jpg)
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