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• Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

  Jacque Fresco

  Culture, Behavior, Values

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• The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial.

  Victor Turner

  Law, Conventions, Entity

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• Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Men, Soul

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• Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Giving, Have Faith

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• Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

  William Hazlitt

  Prejudice, Able, Way

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.98

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• I’m the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world—how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the afterlife. I live for death.” “You must be fun at parties,” I said.

  Rick Riordan

  Fun, Party, Afterlife

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.283, Penguin UK

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• If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.

  Jeb Bush

  Ice, Immigration, Enforcement

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• Custom reconciles us to everything.

  Edmund Burke

  Tradition, Reconcile

  'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 4, sect. 18

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• People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Learning, Thinking

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• These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Self, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.42, 谷月社

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• To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sleep, Sound, Pioneers

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• Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Country, Europe, Law

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• It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

  David Hume

  Life, Reason, Guides

  "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding". Book by David Hume, 1758.

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• Custom is the great guide to human life.

  David Hume

  Guides, Human Life, Humans

  Terence Penelhum, David Hume (1992). “David Hume: an introduction to his philosophical system”, Purdue Univ Pr

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• We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Wall, Evil, House

  Speech at a meeting of the Muslim University Union, Aligarh, March 10, 1944.

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• I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

  John Steinbeck

  Guilt, Feels, Uneasy

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

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• Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

  Martin Filler

  War, Machines, World

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• I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's hands . . . They admit that the inventors of writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but they maintain that this application is accidental and that books in themselves mean nothing. This opinion - we shall see - is not altogether false.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Jorge Luis Borges (1962). “Ficciones”, p.81, Grove Press

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• Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Women, Age

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 2, l. [243]

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• Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Together, Illogical

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Citizen of the Galaxy”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die

  Robin Hobb

  War, Believe, Fighting

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.1108, Del Rey

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• One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  People, Example, London

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2008.

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• Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

  Pythagoras

  Decision, May, Way

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• Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

  Mary Astell

  Ignorance, Vices, Foundation

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.67, Broadview Press

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