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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

~Caleb Cushing

Topics: Adoption Constitution Conventions Debates Know People Rejection Respective Several Sir State States Submitted Well You

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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

~Carla Gugino

Topics: Always Conventions More Others Sometimes Successful Than Think Trying I Think

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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

~Carlos Fuentes

Topics: Abu Conventions Geneva Ghraib Happened Human Human Rights Iraq Monstrous Prison Record Rights Simply Violations

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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Any Attention Conventions Critical Explore Fads Labels Like Paying Prejudice Reader Silly Sort Voracious Without Writing

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At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one.

~Carol Berg

Topics: Board Book Conventions Count Ever Fiction First Guy His Me Out Promoting Sandwich Saw Science Science Fiction Wearing

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Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

~Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Topics: Conventions Shocks Today Tomorrow

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Donald Trump has taken a battering ram to longstanding political norms - the unwritten conventions that make governance possible. But even before he decided to run for president, those norms were under assault.

~Cass Sunstein

Topics: Assault Before Conventions Decided Donald Donald Trump Even Governance He Make Norms Political Possible President Ram Run Taken Those Trump Unwritten Were

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The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natural law, and the artificial conventions of society. With regard to its main purpose, there is no comparison between the first and the others; but all three are alike in that they all lead towards happiness in this mortal life.

~Cesare Beccaria

Topics: Alike Artificial Between Comparison Conventions Derived First Govern Happiness Law Lead Life Main Men Moral Mortal Natural Others Political Principles Purpose Regard Revelation Society Sources Three Towards

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At home, I have lot of pictures from 'The Walking Dead' and some stuff from comic books. At comic conventions, people will give me a lot of autographed stuff, so a lot of those are on my wall.

~Chandler Riggs

Topics: Books Comic Comic Books Conventions Dead Give Give Me Home Lot Me People Pictures Some Stuff Those Walking Walking Dead Wall Will

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Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.

~Charles A. Beard

Topics: Candidates Conventions Development Direct Fortuitous Inevitably Leads Machinery Necessity Offices Party Politics Practical Requirements Result

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