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" Quotes and Sayings About conventional

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Convention Route Group Individual
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I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

Disdain People True Mind
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Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Idea Done Young People
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

About Conventional Freeing Ourselves
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Back Death Development Every
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Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Been Business Career Conventional
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Truly New Criticism Art
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Conventional Doctrine True Neptune
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Anonymity Completeness Like Often
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Art Conventional Dealing History
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Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.

Box Conventional Does Ever
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

Area Centers Considered Conventional
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The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

Ability Age Banking BankingSystem
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events

Look Right People They see
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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Unconventionality My desires Mind Never
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Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom.

Media Tend Mouth Conventional
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What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional system, whether it’s economics, business or the way we live and surround ourselves, what we eat, without recognizing that there are severe negative externalizes that are not being accounted for.

Remind people Can't operate Conventional system It’s economics
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

Forget World Think Conscience
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Look at formal, conventional education. We spend up to 20 years of our lives going through a one-size-fits-all system that mostly only prepares us for a life of subsistence.

Conventional education Our lives Prepares us A life
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Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age.

Ideals Conventional Goals Age
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Conventional View Painful Thinking
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

Wordly wisdom Teaches Fail Succeed
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