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If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

~David K. Shipler

Topics: Airport Border Capital Customs Daunting Nation Near Officers Passport Protection Seems Staff Stand Task Who You

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I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

~David Liss

Topics: Am Biologically Culture Customs Democratic Different Habits Lot Magic Many More Often Once Ordinary Ordinary People People Popular Popular Culture Saying Separate Show Superstitions While Whole I Am

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It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: Climate Country Customs Everything Food Foreign Foreign Country Liberating Living New Place Strange Very Where

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Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

~Dick Thornburgh

Topics: Arrest Been Borders Century Convergence Customs Economic Even Integration Island Nation National Political Political System Puerto Rest Rico State System Territory Though Within

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I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.

~Dominic West

Topics: About Anything Beautiful Customs Glamorous Know Only People Sadly Stopped Uniform Watch Whether Wire Women Fbi

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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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It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Action Approval Been Customs Disapproval Formative Here Home Province Quite Sea Society Wants Wishes Woman Women

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Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

~Emma Lazarus

Topics: Adopt Any Customs Form Intensive Jews Language Nationality Whose

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There will be no hard border from Dundalk to Derry in the context of it being a European border, and by that I mean customs posts every mile along the road.

~Enda Kenny

Topics: Along Being Border Context Customs European Every Hard Mean Mile Posts Road Will

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We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.

~Fat Joe

Topics: Almost American Because Cheating Culture Customs Double Got Gotta Latino Like Live Proud Same Same Time Time

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