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• By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

  Carol Bellamy

  Rights, Government, Bounds

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• It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

  Denis Diderot

  Human Nature, Should, Humans

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

  Bette Davis

  Respect, Funny Marriage, Ends

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love, Husband, Passion

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• The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

  Emanuel Celler

  Heart, Men, Honest

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Different, Fiction, Crowds

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• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  Barbara Bush

  Blue, Mind, Waste

  TIME magazine, August 24, 1992.

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• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  Caleb Cushing

  People, Rejection, Adoption

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• This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

  David Brinkley

  Mean, Moon, Keeping Promises

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• A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, History, Facts

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

  Bianca Jagger

  Law, Walking Away, Rights

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• Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

  John Yoo

  Names, Numbers, Example

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• Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

  Jane Byrne

  Chicago, Transportation, Trade

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• At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Confusion, Hospitality, Mets

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

  Jon Corzine

  Care, Deeds, Moral

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• Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

  Alcee Hastings

  Commitment, Years, Punishment

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• Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

  Peter Shaffer

  Dark, Light, Play

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• I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Routine, Daily Life, Share

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.29

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• I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.

  David Mitchell

  Waiting, Sound, Atlas

  "Fictional character: Robert Frobisher". "Cloud Atlas", 2012.

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• So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

  Michael Beschloss

  Hard Times, People, Nominations

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• Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Cutting, Editing

  Willa Cather (2013). “Willa Cather On Writing”, p.67, Knopf

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• Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

  Steven Pinker

  Agreement, Choices, Community

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• The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Feelings, Lust

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.71, Routledge

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