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Letter "C" » custom
«No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion»
Author: Carrie Chapman Catt
| Keywords:
binding, custom, laws and customs, popular opinion, supported, unwritten, unwritten law
«The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it»
«Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
current, custom, One Country, peering, peers, The Current
«Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.»
«There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted»
«Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Learning,
Men,
Opinions,
Thinking
| Keywords:
commonly, custom, imbibed, imbibes, inclinations
«That precedent should continue-not by a Constitutional amendment but by custom based on the honor of the man in the office.»
Author: Harry S Truman
(President)
| Keywords:
amendment, Amendments, constitutional, constitutional amendment, custom, office, precedent, The Office
«Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well»
«Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
justification,
Logic,
Traditions
| Keywords:
custom, get rid of, harder, justify, justifying, less, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, The Less, to get, traditional
«Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
altogether, connection, custom, customs, fatal, incalculable, tradition, Traditions, weather
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