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When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Authorship Could Custom Everything Failed Fit Ghost Hand Heavy Hold Irish Language Life Mean Meant Mine My Life Night Poetry Seemed Sometimes Struggled Tried Where Word Write Young I Tried

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Custom reconciles us to everything.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Custom Everything Us

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'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that would seem abhorrent and incredible to a higher and more brotherly civilization.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Abhorrent Civilization Custom Customs Doubt Going Great Higher Incredible More No Doubt Race Seem Supporting White Would

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My parents were very, very strict parents, and they were not used to this new, you know, American custom of letting your children sleep in someone else's house.

~Elaine Chao

Topics: American Children Custom Else House Know Letting New Parents Sleep Someone Strict Used Very Were You Your

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The custom of clasping hands is thought to date back thousands of years, as proof of not holding any weapons.

~Faith Salie

Topics: Any Back Custom Date Hands Holding Proof Thought Thousands Thousands Of Years Weapons Years

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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

~Felix Adler

Topics: Admitting Assembly Consideration Custom Exalted Force Human Interest Lost Meeting Most Nevertheless Precious Public Serious Together Too Topics Vitally

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The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

~Felix Adler

Topics: Church Custom Ethical Importance Like Maintaining Public Society Sunday Therefore

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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

~Francis Bacon

Topics: According Act Custom Generally Ingrained Learning Opinions People Speak Think

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The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism in its purest form; nothing - no law or custom, no person white or black, male or female - could keep him for long from whatever he wanted.

~Geoffrey Ward

Topics: American Black Both Could Custom Embodied Ever Female Form Hated He Him Individualism Jack Johnson Keep Knew Law Less Long Loved Male More No Law Nothing Person Purest Real Than Those Wanted Whatever White Who

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