"The conventional wisdom is often wrong." — Steven Levitt

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• Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
• The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment… — Walter Benjamin
• In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary… — Ezra Taft Benson
• When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more. — Mayim Bialik
• There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down… — Kathryn Bigelow
• A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good… — Augustine Birrell
• I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television.… — Anthony Bourdain
• No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and… — Andre Breton
• The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need… — Jerry Brown
• Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? — Paul Cezanne
• Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound… — Noam Chomsky
• Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could… — Lester Grinspoon

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