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• People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Giving, Car

  Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

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• Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Notion, Persons

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Thinking, Force, Solutions

  "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age". "Zero Hour", openvault.wgbh.org. 1987.

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• The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make up for a actual or perceived disequilibrium in the conventional field by having more nuclear weapons.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Quality, Different, Nuclear

  WGBH-TV Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.

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• It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

  Reid Hoffman

  These Days

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• The problems with conventional parking meters are myriad. Nevertheless, two advanced technologies, multispace parking meters and curb-space occupancy sensors, can make it much easier for users to pay for curb parking, and for cities to adjust prices to meet the demand.

  Donald Shoup

  Technology, Cities, Parking Meters

  Source: translib.blogspot.com

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• Conventional money is supposed to be doing everything. By adding in complementary currencies, you actually get different types of things and different outcomes from different complementary currencies.

  Bernard Lietaer

  Different, Outcomes, Currency

  Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.

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• The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different history. The word "cooperative" means the workplace itself is organized cooperatively, rather than in the conventional capitalistic, hierarchical form.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Mean, Different, Workplace

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Errors, People

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• I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow the business. We had to reshape our business and acquire share in a non conventional way. But most tech leaders don't come out of a business background. They really have a parochial point of view. All they know are the go-go years of Silicon Valley. That's the environment in which they were raised.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Views, Years

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• Don't decide that you're going to be a writer or musician and just expect it to happen because it's a big gamble and a lot less predictable than a conventional job. But you do increase the likelihood of success by working as hard as you can and holding yourself to the highest standard you can muster.

  Max Bemis

  Jobs, Musician, Increase

  Source: blog.seagate.com

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• Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

  Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It's very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It's been incredibly good for business.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Powerful, Responsibility

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• In
  the creation of the federal government, the states exercised the
  highest act of sovereignty, and they may, if they please, repeat the
  proof of their sovereignty, by its annihilation. But the union possesses
  no innate sovereignty, like the states; it was not self-constitute d; it
  is conventional, and of course subordinate to the sovereignties by
  which it was formed.

  John Taylor

  Government, Self, Unions

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• A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Good Man, Ordinary

  "The Ministry of Fear". Book by Graham Greene. Book 1, Chapter 7, Section 1, 1943.

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• Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

  Kathleen Norris

  Men, Ideas

  Kathleen Thompson Norris (1931). “Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women”

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• Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

  Kenneth Clark

  Bears, Losing, Burden

  "The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. VIII), 1951.

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• A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Ideas, Groups, Interest

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Russian Literature”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is good because of a check and a balance. What I believe happens all too often, regardless of which party is there's gridlock. And I think the better argument is give one party a chance, give them a chance with a House and a Senate and a president. Give them a few years to see what they can do. And if you don't like it, put another party in.

  Scott Walker

  Believe, Party, Thinking

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• I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are just conventional. I hope they are true whenever I read it of someone. [But] I would rather be awake. Peacefully awake, brim full of some calming drug that was seeing me out of the door, having said my farewells.

  Ian Mcewan

  Farewell, Sleep, Doors

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• 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.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Hero, Evil

  Interview with The A.V. Club, film.avclub.com. September 20, 2007.

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• I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too, but it was more in the direction of where it was headed. I didn't have a clue as to the drawing style, because the drawing style that I was groomed on from the beginning was newspaper comic strips, which were much more conventional.

  Jules Feiffer

  Strong, Ideas, Drawing

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.

  Robert M. Gates

  Battle, Conventional Wisdom

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• We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.

  Ameen Rihani

  Shells, Path, Academic

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• Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Wealth, Social, Mark

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.26, M.E. Sharpe

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