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Tag Name "Tradition" (1243)

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Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.
Colin MacInnes
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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
Daniel Barenboim
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Tradition is not something a man can learn not a thread he picks up when he feels like it any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.
Talal Asad
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.
Jean Jaures
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Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.
Jaroslav Pelikan
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Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.
Franz Marc
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Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
Octavio Paz
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Traditions cannot themselves, simply with their own powers, do what needs to be done. These earlier experiences and accomplishments were dealing with other issues, providing guidance for different worlds than the world of the early twenty-first century.
Thomas Berry
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Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.
Michael Novak
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Tradition or not, I sometimes thought putting children on an old guy’s lap was already creepy enough. We didn’t need to mix alcohol into it.
Richelle Mead
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Tradition kills originality you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky always create new and different things be original!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.
Alasdair MacIntyre
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Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.
Hassan Fathy
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Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the chrism of a superior legitimacy (we may even call them 'principles from above').
Julius Evola
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Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.
Stacy Aumonier
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Tradition is a challenge to innovation.
Alvaro Siza Vieira
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Tradition sometimes excludes the girl child from inheriting or single women may not want to be perceived as pursuing too much property. The law has come a long way in favor of the woman, but it is the tradition, the attitudes, that we often have to fight.
Wangari Maathai
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Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.
Warren Ellis
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traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.
Edith Wharton
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Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One internalizes the Other as one acquires a sense of what one's own tradition is, what one belongs to and what gives valid shape to one's life.
Talal Asad
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Tradition has to be retaken by the liberal forces, so that they can show their values of tolerance and democracy not as novel western ideas but as ones indigenous to Pakistan, as a part of its very creation.
Steve Inskeep
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Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.
Steven Biko
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