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I wouldn't mind a little bow. In Japan, they bow. I love it. Only thing I love about Japan.
- Donald Trump
Habit is the nursery of errors.
- Victor Hugo
You'll have to forgive me. I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.
- Margaret Atwood
Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.
- Joyce Meyer
After all, I'd never met anyone who would just start praying over a glass of iced tea.
- Elizabeth Musser
A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.
- George Eliot
I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.
- Stephen Hawking
But they must be sorry folk to bow down to the rich in such a fashion, said big John. I am but a poor commoner of England myself, and yet I know something of charters, liberties franchises, usages, privileges, customs, and the like. If these be broken, then all men know that it is time to buy arrow-heads. Aye
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The warnings given to the Hebrews against assimilating with the heathen were not more direct or explicit than are those forbidding Christians to conform to the spirit and customs of the ungodly.
- Ellen White
These adversaries of Christ had no arguments with which to meet the truths He brought home to their consciences. They could only cite their customs and traditions, and these seemed weak and vapid when compared with the arguments Jesus had drawn from the word of God and the unceasing round of nature.
- Ellen White
While a culture may be defined by the customs and accepted practices of its people, it is critical to understand that it is the thinking of its people that creates a culture in the first place.
- Andy Andrews
Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
- Samuel Johnson