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"from Bill Clinton speech-
"People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...""
— Bill Clinton

tags: 2008, clinton, convention, democratic, politics, president, speech

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"And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.'"
— Isaac Asimov (Murder at the ABA)

tags: autograph, convention, fame, fiction, science, self-referential

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"Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: convention

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"I hate a Roman named Status Quo."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: 451, convention, fahrenheit

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""So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
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— Christopher Reeve

tags: christopher, convention, democratic, dreams, inspiration, national, reeve

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