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Custom Quotes
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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
Customs represent the experience of mankind.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat blind as to things that are to come.
At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places.
Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
Custom makes all things easy.
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Motivational Quote
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
Happiness Quote
There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so.
Relationship Quote
A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.
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