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I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

~David Shields

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Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.

~David Suzuki

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No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

~Dean Ornish

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Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.

~Deobia Oparei

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You can't talk about defeating insurgencies in the same way that you can with a conventional army.

~Des Browne

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I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

~Diane Wakoski

Topics: Attitude Attitudes Away Beauty Because Certain Contain Conventional Etc Getting Ideas Involved Language One Of The Things Poets Race Sex Things Think Those Toward Very Women I Think

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Ramesh Ponnuru and others say Obama is a conventional liberal. But conventional liberals don't come out for the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Conventional liberals don't return the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. Conventional liberals don't block oil drilling in America while subsidizing oil drilling in Brazil.

~Dinesh D'Souza

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To most people, paranoia carries a negative connotation. I believe it is one of the most valuable attributes a leader can have. It is about self-reflection and having the courage, humility, and discipline to constantly ask uncomfortable questions that can potentially poke holes in your strategy and challenge your conventional thinking.

~Dinesh Paliwal

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I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.

~Dontrelle Willis

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Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.

~Doug Ducey

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