"Custom is potent, but its true power is informal. It derives from the ability of habit to neutralize the implications of book knowledge. Anything learned from study that conflicts with accustomed practice cannot really be right, things simply can't be different than they are."
-- Haym Soloveitchik, "Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy" Tradition, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Summer 1994) Accessed from: http://www.lookstein.org/links/orthodoxy.htm
