Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will dri

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. – George Bernard Shaw

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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature. – George Bernard Shaw

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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. – Christopher Morley

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Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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