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Letter "C" » convention
«A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.»
Author: James A. Farley
(Politician)
| Keywords:
convention, delegate, delegates, delegating, rigged
«The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.»
Author: Northrop Frye
| Keywords:
affectionate, ancient Egypt, ancient people, convention, Egypt, gregarious, shepherd, societies, The Shepherd
«I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to them and seen them and I'm not interested in politics. If you watch them and listen to them you can find out why.»
Author: Casey Stengel
(Baseball Player, Manager)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
convention, listened, Republican, Republican Convention, stayed, talk Politics, the Convention, the conventions, watched
«It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
| Keywords:
acknowledged, beatnik, capitalist, convention, fringe, fringed, fringes, fringe benefit, herds, hippie, hippies, in for, marketing, obedient, obsolescence, strangely
«The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
convention, media, sounds, the Convention, the conventions
«A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
aged, arrested, arrested development, cocoon, cocoons, continuing, convention, middle-aged, middle-aged man, muffle, muffled, muffling, on the contrary
«I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
Clients and customers,
Sales
| Keywords:
attend, beach, client, convention, engagement, engagements, pebble, polygamy, previous, spouse
«President Bush, testing the mic at the GOP convention:'Four score and seven years ago. We have come here to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place. ... My fellow members of the press corps, especially the camera man, tax relief is on the way ... don't spend it all in one place.'»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
All in one, bush, camera, convention, corps, dedicate, GOP, members, on the way, portion, President Bush, press corps, relief, resting, score, Seven Years, testing, the Convention, the conventions, the press
«The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.»
Author: Will Rogers
| About:
God,
Politics
| Keywords:
bless, carrying, convention, Evening Prayer, opened, Republican, Republican Convention, Republican Party, the Convention, the conventions
«It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
convention, Eyes of the World, the Convention, unconventional, unconventionality
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