#convent

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles. ↗

— Anil Kapoor

#go #roles #strategy #unconventional

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#conventions #environment #fair #geneva #know

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#bonds #bursting #convention #disruptive #either

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#benefits #convention #poor #tangible #world

I always thought it'd be fun to go to a sci-fi convention, watch a bunch of Klingons walking around, all of that kind of stuff. ↗

— Michael Welch

#around #bunch #convention #fun #go

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so. ↗

— Timothy White

#decade #every #i #i think #magazine

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#attend #career #conventions #else #find

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#break #conventions #isolation #necessary #nice

Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks. ↗

— John Yoo

#armed #armed forces #article #attacks #civilian

I was in a convent for a year. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#i #year