Quotes About Peculiarities

It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively.

treasure your exceptions!. . . Keep them always uncovered and in sight. .

We find the Mayan pantheon peculiar. By our standards, suicide and human sacrifice are unacceptable. We tend not to notice the peculiarities of our own culture. We accept the thousands of children who wear braces to correct their teeth, yet we consider the Maya odd for filing teeth to beautify them. Each culture defines its own idiosyncracies and then forgets that it has done so.