Quotes: convention
Quotes 1 till 15 of 20.
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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.
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A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.
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Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
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However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.
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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory - horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene - and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
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It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.
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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.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
Source: Speech Republican National Convention 2004 -
The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
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The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
