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  • Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

  • Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.

  • In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

    Mother   Home   Sweat  
    "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".
  • When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant." - The Mist

  • I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the context of conventional selling space.

    Space   Slave   Enough  
  • I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself.

    Wisdom   Attitude   Taken  
    Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei Masakazu (2015). “Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force”, p.5, Routledge
  • I really think if you have a tattoo you have to wonder about what kind of future you have ahead of you. As an employer, I wouldn't employ someone with tattoos as I would wonder what customers would think about them. For me, tattoos are just a way for people to find attention who haven't found another way in their life to achieve it by conventional means.

    Tattoo   Mean   Thinking  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

  • If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • [E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists.

    Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company
  • I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and open feeling about how other humans want to live their lives. It's just not something that has any real significance for me.

    Interview with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2011.
  • The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

    Believe   Hero   Evil  
    Interview with The A.V. Club, film.avclub.com. September 20, 2007.
  • I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.

  • Dr. Lawrence Burton....in fighting cancer.(:) Many of his patients are now living normal lives after being told there was nothing more the conventional treatments could do for them, and that death was imminent....Why are Americans being forced to go off shore for treatment for cancer from an American doctor and for a program that was developed in America?

    Cancer   Fighting   Dark  
  • The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

    "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.
  • I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.

    School   Agents   Young  
  • I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

    "Madonna Misses "Certain Things" About Being Married". OK! Magazine, January 12, 2012.
  • Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.

    War   Robots   Command  
    Chuck Klosterman (2010). “Robots: An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
  • The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

    Interview with Joanna Rose, www.nobelprize.org. December 09, 2003.
  • Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

    "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.
  • Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four years, both should shut down and Massachusetts should finally end all reliance on conventional coal generation.

    Two   Years   Next  
  • Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

    Mean   Survival   Term  
  • Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.

    Art   Expression   Poetry  
  • When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

    Ideas   Trying   Film  
    "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.
  • I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who have primaries and when those primaries are done, they may be more inclined to address the issue of comprehensive immigration reform.

  • The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.

    "Prophet of Software". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
  • George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

    Kings   Would Be   Duty  
  • That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.

    Mean   Dreamer   Rebel  
  • If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play.

    Stupid   Play   Creative  
    Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin
  • Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

    Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.76, Lulu Press, Inc
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