Conventional Quotes
432 quotes by 390 authors
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I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.
— Idi Amin
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I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
— Francoise Sagan
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Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.
— Paul Farmer
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A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the…
— Ken Wilber
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Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.
— David Suzuki
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Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is…
— Dan Ariely
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The conventional wisdom in our business is that you have to grow and keep moving to survive. We never grew, always stayed tiny, and it…
— Stefan Sagmeister
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Organic is something we can all partake of and benefit from. When we demand organic, we are demanding poison-free food. We are demanding clean air.…
— Maria Rodale
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Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold…
— Vincent Canby
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I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution.…
— Colin Blakemore
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You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.
— Martin Fleischmann
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Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to act against the…
— Marek Belka
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Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world…
— Richard Marcinko
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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
— Myrtle Reed
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The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold…
— Sarah Ferguson
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A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
— Timothy West
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Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best.
— John Diamond
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Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.
— John Anthony West
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What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional system, whether it’s…
— Prince Charles
Who Wrote These Conventional Quotes
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