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the Convention
«Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates.»
«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 is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| Keywords:
accuse, accuses, accusing, conventions, despicable, Human nature, pervert, perverting, perverts, The Accused, the Convention, the conventions
«The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
convention, media, sounds, the Convention, the conventions
«[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without -- and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
| Keywords:
artistic, conventions, detail, nearly, preserve, simplified, simplifies, simplify, simplifying, the Convention, the conventions
«I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and ha»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
concluded, Crossing the, Crossing the river, league, river horse, swap, swapping, The Best Man, the Convention
«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 convention miscalled 'modesty' has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
artificiality, caprices, the Convention, whim
«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