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Conventional Quotes

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. Bertrand Russell
Rumi quote: "Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls..."
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls... Rumi
Aldous Huxley quote: "Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the..."
Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world. Aldous Huxley
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity. Susan Sontag
Domhnall Gleeson quote: "Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at."
Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at. Domhnall Gleeson
Katharine Fullerton Gerould quote: "Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien..."
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Carroll O'Connor quote: "Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be..."
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. Carroll O'Connor
Nick Clooney quote: "Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting..."
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. Nick Clooney
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. Archibald MacLeish
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. Penelope Lively
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them. Norman Lamm
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. Paul Ryan
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure..."
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. Ambrose Bierce
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present? Roland Joffe
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things. Alan Watts

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