The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I'm constantly correcting young people and fashion students in this nation when they say "Well, I do couture." By definition, you don't.… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by… — Khaled Hosseini 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
[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs,… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day.… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The present custom of orthodox Christendom, in packing their sins upon the back of a God, is just the same substantially as… — Kersey Graves Copy Share Image
Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Big box just wasn't our strength. We are a men's and boy's specialty store focused on providing high quality clothing with custom… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in… — Richard Hough Copy Share Image
How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the… — Terry Eastland Copy Share Image
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
No secret that I enjoy motor sports and cars in particular, building cars, building custom cars. Part of that scene. I love… — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people… — David Liss Copy Share Image
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black,… — King James I Copy Share Image
We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
“Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There are a few things that were disconcerting, the stories about the private security firm not having enough people, supposed strike of… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
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