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We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

— Amy Vanderbilt

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✓Similar Perspectives

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

— Theodore Bikel

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

— Rob Lowe

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Whatever your religious tradition is, if it's important to you and you don't feel comfortable talking about it, you end up coming across as insincere.

— Tim Kaine

We lack rituals in this modern world.

— Elizabeth McGovern

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

— Sherman Alexie

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

— Charlize Theron

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

— Emile Hirsch

✗Opposing Perspectives

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.

— John Hench