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Letter "C" » Custom
«No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.»
«You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.»
Author: Martha Graham
(Choreographer, Dancer, Teacher)
| About:
Custom
| Keywords:
blanket, flaw, Indian, weaving
«The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.»
«Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.»
«We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Custom
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axiom, axioms, boast, free-thinking, oftenest, questioned
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