It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom,… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and… — John Money Copy Share Image
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them." "They do. You just can't see… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Thus it is that Pope Innocent III states [De Consuetudine] that, it is necessary to obey the Pope in all things as… — Pope Innocent I Copy Share Image
“Traditions that cease to evolve render themselves irrelevant or obsolete. And what's the problem with inventing new performance practices? Are customs being… — David Cutler Copy Share Image
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the… — Virgil Copy Share Image
It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids'… — Alice-Leone Moats Copy Share Image
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I'm Punjabi and speak Punjabi fluently and know all the Indian customs and everything. — Jinder Mahal Copy Share Image
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom,… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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