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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

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


#been #borders #century #convergence #customs

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.


Aaron Hill


#birth #consequences #customs #fixed #form

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.


Nelson A. Miles


#allow #along #attempt #been #canada

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.


Herodotus


#before #best #bidding #certainly #choose

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.


Allyson Schwartz


#cargo #containers #customs #dangerous #economic

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.


Sidney Sheldon


#attitudes #countries #customs #exploring #far

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.


George Bernard Shaw


#barbarism #customs #law #nature #self-centered

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.


Buffalo Bill


#correct #could #customs #etc #faces

If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.


Jeb Bush


#deal #disappear #enforcement #files #friends






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