Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding… — George Cheyne Copy Share Image
The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so… — Adam Smith 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
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our troops should not conform to customs that represent the marginalization of people and are incongruent with our fundamental values. — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person… — Dana Milbank Copy Share Image
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God?… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions,… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept,… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are… — Bob Herbert Copy Share Image
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces. — Fred Foster 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
The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom,… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
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