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You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it's just till election day. It's an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we've got a pretty good country - until next election. Stephen Vincent Benet

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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself. Marcus Aurelius

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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. Michel de Montaigne

World Way Follow Laws Make Custom

No man is born believing that he has dominion over women. Instead, this view is handed down from generation to generation and amplified through social custom, culture, and popular media. Cyril Ramaphosa

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The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it. John Owen

World Sense Shame Takes Course Sinning Custom Away

It was a beautiful custom. When a person who had a break of good luck entered a cafe and ordered a cup of coffee, he didn't pay just for one, but for two cups, allowing someone less fortunate who entered later to have a cup of coffee for free. Luciano De Crescenzo

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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

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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner. Saint Teresa of Avila

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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. Will Durant

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I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom. Adam Jones

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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. Alfred Russel Wallace

I'm a very good listener. I think that's one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it's a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment. Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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In the sixth grade, I planned to start my own business making custom fishing lures. Charles Best

Business Own My Own Making Fishing Grade Sixth Custom Planned Start

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. Charles Davenport

People Law Kings Unwritten Which Custom Even Keep Awe

In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance was widespread. The organization and regulations of local self-government were clearly defined and strictly applied. Individual self-control was even more strongly emphasized. Chiang Kai-shek

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When I was growing up, our nation was partitioned: Blacks were segregated by law in the South and largely by custom in the North, though it, too, had segregation laws. Our best universities had quota systems. Many white communities had real estate covenants to keep nonwhites out. Donna Brazile

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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

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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

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Indeed, the Royal Family still retain the German custom - introduced by Prince Albert - of opening their presents on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas morning. Ingrid Seward

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When I want to DJ what I think to be the best-sounding place in the world, I go to this place in Sapporo, Japan, called Precious Hall, which has kind of a custom sound system with a much lower ceiling and a smaller room. James Murphy

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This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind. Jean Froissart

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You custom make your own car, ain't nobody else driving that. Kevin Knox

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