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We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.


Bill Shuster


#complex #politicians #unconventional #war

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.


John Kenneth Galbraith


#job #painful #protect #serves #thinking

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

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.


Gustave Flaubert


#conventions #duty #gustave-flaubert #life #madame-bovary

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

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.


Jerry Brown


#cut #fewer #jobs #just #more

What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.


James L. Buckley


#along #being #campaign #campaign finance #conservative

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?


Paul Cezanne


#course #earth #life #most #succeed

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.


Alastair Campbell


#boil #clinton #conventional #conventional wisdom #down

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.


Noam Chomsky


#doctrines #either #else #everybody #like






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