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Custom
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“Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.”
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“The human race has always clung to the established habits and customs of life, has always been loath to give up what was once found good.”
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“Duration is not a test of true or false.”
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“... traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.”
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“No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.”
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“O clamorous tyrant, Custom!”
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“Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.”
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“There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.”
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“... such is the prevalency which custom, ever so wrongly introduced, has over the minds of the Men, that it requires much less difficulty to wean them from sentiments, which they themselves have built on the most convincing evidences of reason and truth, than to draw them from the prejudices which custom has instilled into them.”
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“Traditions are the guideposts driven deep into our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.”
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“When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.”
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“Custom, that merciless torrent that carries all before it ...”
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“Custom is never, by her nature, the handmaid of freedom ...”
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“I imagine she has not been content for some time, but to open her eyes to what she was not supposed to see required courage for which she had no training. No bondage is so hard to break as heritage and custom.”
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“The most damning phrase in the language is 'We've always done it this way.'”
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“What custom hath endear'd / We part with sadly, though we prize it not ...”
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“Custom makes monsters of us all.”