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#conventional

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Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.


Andrew Motion


#badge #big #big deal #both #conventional

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.


John Forbes Nash, Jr.


#conventional #delusional #finally #human #hypotheses

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.


Florence Nightingale


#conventionality #death #development #every #gifts

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.


Chuck Palahniuk


#always #conventional way #get #heartbreaking #i

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.


Anna Quindlen


#been #blame #conventional #conventional wisdom #girl

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.


Theodore C. Sorensen


#clear #conventional #danger #force #genuine

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.


J. L. Austin


#ceremonial #character #conventional #general #general character

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.


Agha Hasan Abedi


#definition #developing #done #getting #management

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.


Kathryn Bigelow


#character #conventional #down #down the road #part

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.


Isadora Duncan


#before #beings #break #conventional #human






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