Conventions Quotes

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By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention colour is colour.… — Democritus
All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting… — Oliver Ellsworth
According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his… — John Green
Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has… — Man Ray
Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved — Juan Manuel Santos
Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of… — John McCain
This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with… — Wilhelm Keitel
The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its utility can be… — Carol Bellamy
I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport. — Bill Brandt
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always… — Abraham Lincoln
The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress. — Trevor Baylis
Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a… — Garry Kasparov
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have… — Mark Twain
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… — Mark Twain
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river. — Indira Gandhi
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to… — Barack Obama
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever… — Thurgood Marshall
Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention). — Paulo Coelho
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South… — George Washington
The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare… — Alexander Hamilton

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