Customs Quotes - Page 28

• The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.

  William C. Brown

  Criminals, Doe, Use

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• I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.

  Mindy Kaling

  Children, Law, Parent

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• The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

  Azim Premji

  Character, Community, Canada

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• I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!

  Alicia Sacramone

  Chinese, Dresses, Pieces

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• Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Guy, Suits, Made

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• My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

  Mo Yan

  Country, Unique, People

  "Nobel winner Mo Yan speaks up for jailed 'subversive' Liu Xiaobo" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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• The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Law, Political, World

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and wrong. You are filled with fears. This conditioning interferes with your psychic perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Kids, Buddhism

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• Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

  Alfred Marshall

  Law, Rights, Wealth

  Alfred Marshall (1890). “Principles of Economics”

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• The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

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• It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Time, Science, People

  Matthew Fontaine Maury (1858). “Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts”, p.91

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• Custom determines what is agreeable.

  Blaise Pascal

  Determine

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.102, Letcetera Publishing

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• Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Made, Circumstances

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.34

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• Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

  Arnold Bennett

  Memories, Casting Off, Use

  Arnold Bennett (2000). “The Old Wives' Tale”, p.577, Chicago Review Press

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• Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

  Sean O'Casey

  Laughter, Men, Hue

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• Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Country, Skills, Heritage

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• Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

  Richard Leakey

  Law, Skills, Survival

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• America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.

  Israel Shenker

  Morning, Past, America

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our topics of conversation, it is difficult not to see that a very remarkable change in several respects has come into our ideas; a change which, by its rapidity, seems to us to foreshadow another still greater. Time alone will tell the aim, the nature and limits of this revolution, whose inconveniences and advantages our posterity will recognize better than we can.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Ideas, Achievement, Events

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• After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Food, Mutual Love, Helping

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• The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do not generally view the phenomena from a sufficiently high biological standpoint. To me, at least, they seem to attach too much importance to individual rulers and soldiers, and to particular wars, policies, religions, and customs; while at the same time they make little attempt to extract the fundamental causes of national success or failure.

  Ronald Ross

  War, Fall, Science

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• Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

  Frantz Fanon

  Essence, Culture, Deterioration

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Drawing, Woods, Trouble

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• We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we'd custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one's individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you've probably never done before.

  David Agus

  Technology, Medicine, Gowns

  "‘The End of Illness’ Author David Agus Answers Readers’ Questions" by Stephen J. Dubner, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.

  Dierks Bentley

  Fans, Dukes, T Shirt

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