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

  Ed Miliband

  Wisdom, Challenges, Progress

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• 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

  Two Sides, Issues, Campaigns

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• Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.

  Nigel Lawson

  Country, Wind, Environmental

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• Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Society, Doe

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• It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'

  Dario Fo

  Writing, Breathing, Technique

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• The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.

  William Kentridge

  Understanding, World, Rupture

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• I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

  Chris Cornell

  Letting Go, Rocks, Guitar

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• Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Reality, Thinking

  "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks". Interview with Randy Lowens, nefac.net. March 15, 2012.

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• Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...

  Franz Marc

  Art, Mind, Guarantees

  "The 'Savages' of Germany". Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Almanak, Munich, 1912.

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• Conventional wisdom would have one believe.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Believe, Conventional Wisdom

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• 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

  Character, Austin, Heirs

  "Performativity". Book by James Loxley, p. 81, 2006.

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• Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.

  Chip Conley

  Political, Entrepreneur, Suits

  "What Drives an Entrepreneur?" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2011.

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• No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order to be spared the anxiety that comes when one is... thrown into seventy thousand fathoms.

  John Macquarrie

  Order, Decision, Anxiety

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• Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Rain, Tanks

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• [T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Magic, Politics, Wave

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• The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, People, Patterns

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• The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Jobs, Delicate Life, Tea

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• In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

  Fischer Black

  Real, Research, World

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• In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Nuts, Novel

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• I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a nonconventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you...

  Hugh Shelton

  War, Believe, Mean

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Progress, Modern, Economic

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

  Mark Strand

  Beautiful, Notion, Concerned

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• I lead a very conventional life.

  Joan Didion

  Conventional Life

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• Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional criteria I had always associated with art. It had no style, no composition, no judgment. It freed me from personal experience. For the first time, there was nothing to it: it was pure picture. That's why I wanted to have it, to show it - not use it as a means to painting but use painting as a means to photography.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Art, Mean

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as a general statement, death is leave-taking. And then ideologically: a leave-taking from a specific doctrine of salvation and, beyond that, from the illusion that unacceptable circumstances of life can be changed by this conventional expedient of violent struggle.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Struggle, Different

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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