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I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.

~Bong Joon-Ho

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I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court.

~Boris Johnson

Topics: About Absolutely Alone American Being Bizarre Control Convention Court Criminal Even Find Giving Giving Up International Just Law Our Seas Sign Sovereignty Up

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My point was very simple, and it was that it is absolutely absurd for the United States of America to continue to urge us further down the line towards a federal superstate when the U.S. has not even signed up to the U.N. Convention on Human Rights.

~Boris Johnson

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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

~Camille Paglia

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

~Carol Bellamy

Topics: Become Bound Convention Governments Implement Legally Rights Therein

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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.

~Carol Bellamy

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Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.

~Carol Bellamy

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Alexander Hamilton, of New York, a signer of the Constitution, was a member of the ratifying convention in his state and did more than any other member to wring the approval of the new instrument from delegates practically instructed by their constituents to vote against it.

~Charles A. Beard

Topics: Against Alexander Any Approval Constituents Constitution Convention Did Hamilton His Instructed Instrument Member More New New York Other Practically State Than Vote York

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If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.

~Charles Albert Gobat

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There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

~Charles Guggenheim

Topics: American Because Been Convention Crimes Escape Geneva Geneva Convention Had He Obviously Prisoner Shot Trial Trying Violated War

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