Customary Quotes

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In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously… — Carl Sagan
Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man. — Sun Tzu
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to… — Charles Lindbergh
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have… — Bertrand Russell
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by… — George Washington
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was… — Ambrose Bierce
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition.… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly… — Christine de Pizan
By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention colour is colour.… — Democritus
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you… — Seneca the Younger
Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well,… — Peter Lynch
In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers. — Ian Peebles
It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church. — Peter Canisius
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of oneâ€™s usual setting,… — Nicolas Bouvier
Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning… — Hannah Arendt
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his… — Plato
But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent,… — John F. Kennedy
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal… — Herbert Butterfield
If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just… — Christine de Pizan
I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock. — Oscar Wilde

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