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#customs

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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.


Alberto Moravia


#based #becomes #custodian #customs #each

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.


John Updike


#art #change #convictions #customs #facts

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.


Robert A. Heinlein


#men

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.


Virginia Woolf


#habit #nature

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.


Albert Camus


#death #either #heart #individuals #lasting

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.


Khaled Hosseini


#customs #life #life

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.


Kit Bond


#coast guard #customs #federal #federal government #government

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.


Bob Filner


#agencies #agents #behavior #border #border patrol

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.


Henry James Sumner Maine


#customs #existing #merely #people #roman

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.


Harriet Martineau


#correction #creative #customs #encourage #help






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