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Conventions Quotes by Mark Twain
- 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…
- 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…
- The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse…
- We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a…
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- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein. — Carol Bellamy
- This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it. — David Brinkley
- The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions. — Barbara Bush
- The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not… — Barbara Bush
- In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd.… — Jonathan Carroll
- The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest… — Emanuel Celler
- When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles… — Nicolas Chamfort