Are Easier To Maintain Than Rebuild

Become Infrastructure

Become Invisible

Become More Real Through Repetition

Become Part Of The Background

Become Real Through Repetition

Become Themselves Through Use

Borrow Authority From Age

Continue

Create Belonging

Create Continuity

Create Identity

Create Momentum Across Generations

Create Permanence

Endure

Harden

Have Long Memories

Need Context

Need Interpretation To Exist

Only Exist Because We Agreed

Only Get Noticed When They Break

Organize Life

Outlive Explanation

Outlive Intentions

Outlive Ownership

Outlive Their Purpose

Outlive Their Usefulness

Persist Through Change

Quietly Connect Eras

Recruit The Past

Remember Pressure

Repeat

Reward Context

custom

is always the deterioration of culture, which abhors all simplification and in its essence it is opposed to custom.

Culture has never the translucidity of custom... it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture. Frantz Fanon

is generally unselfish. A habit is nearly always selfish.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom'.

our nature... as such our natural principles are nothing but principles of custom.

is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. Mark Twain

is sacrificed, if one keeps to it, one becomes its slave.

 always, even the hardest of them, grows pleasanter and milder with time. Thus, the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

Custom alone regulates morals. Anatole France

custom, n.All

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