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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… — Carl Sagan
- Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you… — Sun Tzu
- In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is… — Charles Lindbergh
- In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself… — Bertrand Russell
- If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it… — 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… — Ambrose Bierce
- There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only… — 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… — 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… — Democritus
- If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — 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… — Peter Lynch
- In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers. — Ian Peebles