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• In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stars, Night, Mourning

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel”, p.244, Ballantine Books

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• You cannot attain #‎ mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do

  Roger McDonald

  Sheep, Leader, Mastery

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• It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Children, Land

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1196, Manonmani Publishers

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• Custom is the law of fools.

  John Vanbrugh

  Law, Fool

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• Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mother, Women, Century

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• We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Wise, Country, Lying

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• Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything was going splendidly," she later remarked, "until my bosom barked."

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Funny, Dog, Travel

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• Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

  Moliere

  Marriage, Two, Wife

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• The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.

  Will Durant

  Business, Ideas, Diversity

  Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Stupid, Eye

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• Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love Is, Thinking, Self

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.110

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• It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, President, Entertainment

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• I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Country, Latin

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• Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous.

  Herman Melville

  Indulge In, Enemy, Cannibalism

  Herman Melville (2017). “The Complete Novels of Herman Melville: Sea Tales, Maritime Adventures & Philosophical Novels: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man & Billy Budd, Sailor”, p.175, e-artnow

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• The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Horse, Pie, Three

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• Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site, the specific target that they want to hit. But it depends, this level of sophistication, on the budget and the quality of the actor who's instigating the attack. If it's a country that's less poor or less sophisticated, it'll be a less sophisticated attack.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Zero, Numbers

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• I DECLARE I am special and extraordinary. I am not average! I have been custom-made. I am one of a kind. Of all the things God created, what He is the most proud of is me. I am His masterpiece, his most prized possession. I will keep my head held high, knowing I am a child of the most high God, made in his very image. This is my declaration.

  Joel Osteen

  Children, Average, Knowing

  Joel Osteen (2012). “I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reality, Ideas, Savages

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.189, Penguin

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• We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.

  Anna Brackett

  Freedom, Giving Up, Struggle

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• Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Totems, Lost

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• Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Animal, Men, Vegetables

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• The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.

  Lord Chesterfield

  New Year, Lying, Years

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• Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

  Cyprian

  Errors, Antiquity

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• Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

  Charles Sturt

  Patience, Kindness, Communication

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.128

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• Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Differences, Principles

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.31

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