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The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

Mark Twain
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Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story f... by Mason Cooley

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

Mason Cooley
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I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

Michael Chertoff
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The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

Myrtle Reed
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I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year. by Nichelle Nichols

I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.

Nichelle Nichols
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[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.

Oliver D. Crisp
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The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.

Peter Singer
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Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention). by Paulo Coelho

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

Paulo Coelho
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Convention is the ruler of all. by Pindar

Convention is the ruler of all.

Pindar
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I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to s... by Quentin Crisp

I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

Quentin Crisp
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If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America.

Rand Paul
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Liverpool have played with no real convention. by Ray Houghton

Liverpool have played with no real convention.

Ray Houghton
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a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment. by Regina Maria Roche

a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.

Regina Maria Roche
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There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in... by Renee Montagne

There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.

Renee Montagne
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Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.

Richie Benaud
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Convention is another name for the habits of society. by Rosamond Lehmann

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

Rosamond Lehmann
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I have more folds than an origami convention. by Roscoe Arbuckle

I have more folds than an origami convention.

Roscoe Arbuckle
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One of the conventions that I always liked was Doctor Zhivago, where everything that's written on the screen is in Russian but everyone speaks English. That seemed to me to be quite a good convention to follow.

Rowan Atkinson
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We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the c... by Ronald Reagan

We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.

Ronald Reagan
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I was told that Federalist Society conventions were intellectually serious, courteous, and open to various points of view, and that has certainly been my experience.

Sanford Levinson
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