"The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation……" — Flann O'Brien

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• In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere… — Carl Sagan
• Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army… — Sun Tzu
• In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe… — Charles Lindbergh
• In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power… — Bertrand Russell
• If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong,… — George Washington
• Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the… — Ambrose Bierce
• There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are,… — 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,… — Christine de Pizan
• By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold,… — Democritus
• If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality,… — Seneca the Younger
• Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can… — Peter Lynch
• In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers. — Ian Peebles

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