"They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives."

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"Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion.""Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?"Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here.""How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious."Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing.""How's that a duel?"He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about."Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"I reserve magick for necessities, a bit like the good china. It has a time and a place, but eating peanut butter sandwiches off it each morning chips and devalues it."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"Every generation is inculcated in traditions of prejudice which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too)."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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"Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"To the traditional Indians, terms such as "intercourse, "penis, "vagina, "clitoris, "semen, "masturbation, "breasts, etc. are exclusive possessions of the night. The traditional Indians perceive these terms as something "dirty. No matter how old they look, they really never grow up to talk and discuss about sex."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Tradition, Culture, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect-only if they happen to be talking about Judaism."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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"She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood."

Simone Elkeles, American Author

Tradition, Football, Pride, Identity

"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."

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"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind."

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"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want."

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"I reserve magick for necessities, a bit like the good china. It has a time and a place, but eating peanut butter sandwiches off it each morning chips and devalues it."

"Every generation is inculcated in traditions of prejudice which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy."

"Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too)."

"Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller."

"So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect-only if they happen to be talking about Judaism."

"She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood."

"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."

"Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!"

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"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."

"He was a bold man that first eat an oyster."

"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good."

"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."

"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly."

"As learnA d commentators viewIn Homer more than Homer knew."

"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind."

"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want."

"If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time."

"Possession they say is eleven points of the law."