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715accf
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Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon.
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conventional-wisdom
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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46be37e
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Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.
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conformity
conventional-wisdom
education
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Edith Hamilton |
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975545e
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Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
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conformity
conventional-wisdom
innovation
word-choice
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Harold Bloom |
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2471643
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He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.
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conventional-wisdom
culture
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Stephen Crane |
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bb62454
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It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.
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conventional-wisdom
idolatry
intimacy-with-god
materialism
resilience
worship
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Harold Bloom |
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ada172e
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One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.
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bias
conventional-wisdom
culture
perspective
reading
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Harold Bloom |
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b595b0d
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"When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation."
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bias
conformity
conventional-wisdom
perspective
paranormal
romance
science-fiction
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Harold Bloom |
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a124dc5
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Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
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conventional-wisdom
culture
parenthood
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John Howard Griffin |
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f5a34f9
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Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.
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conventional-wisdom
legacy
literature
self-perception
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Harold Bloom |
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3126dcb
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New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them.
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conventional-wisdom
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Alister E. McGrath |
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e45593e
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"When I say "most people" I mean, of course, me after my first cocktail."
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conventional-wisdom
nuances
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Bill Bryson |
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7ebee32
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The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.
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conventional-wisdom
heritage
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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cc861b9
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That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.
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conventional-wisdom
simplicity
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Steven Johnson |
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a42503e
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I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.
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biases
conventional-wisdom
education
heritage
parenting
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A.J. Jacobs |
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1eba4ba
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That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
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conventional-wisdom
determination
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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55d067c
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The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.
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conventional-wisdom
detachment
insulation
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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1fe3270
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He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice.
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biases
conventional-wisdom
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John Howard Griffin |