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last updated: November 28, 2023

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.
-- Denholm Elliott

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Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.
-- Dodie Smith

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There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.
-- Harold Bell Wright

Source : Harold Bell Wright (1970). “The Shepherd of the Hills”, p.30, Pelican Publishing

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Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.
-- Bill O'Reilly

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“Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.”
“But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.”
“I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.”
“It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.”

Source : "Real Time with Bill Maher", February 08, 2013.
“Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat of their pain is a response to the beat of yours, they have become truthful in their feelings...they have moved a step closer to a truthful reunion.”
“I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.”
“Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.”
“I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.”
“The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.”

Source : Rick Strassman, M.D. (2000). “DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences”, p.21, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
“I like engineering, but I love the creative input.”