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Customs Quote by Robert Bly

“The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.” quote by Robert Bly — Download Open image

“The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.”

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I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

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All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then…

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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

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Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has…

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The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

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I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

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Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become…

Francis Quarles

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What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

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In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold…

Ludwig von Mises

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic…

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by…

Ursula K. Le Guin

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

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The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar in its manufactures, its works of genius, its medicines, its agriculture, its customs, and its policy. He only is a useful traveller, who brings home something by which his country might be benefitted; who procures…

It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of the Church,…

Pope Innocent III

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One of the Canadian customs guards got suspicious and said 'Haven't you been coming and going across the border a lot lately?' I finally…

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