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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 the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about." »G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today." »Henry Ford
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"tradition is laziness." »Gustav Mahler
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"tradition is a guide and not a jailer." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right." »Kurt Herbert Alder
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"tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit." »Hassan Fathy, An Architecture for People by James Steele, page 185.
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"The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars."" »Johnny Carson
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"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." »Winston Churchill
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"The untrodden path is choked by the weeds of tradition. Be not afraid to cut through." »Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, The Rickover Effect
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"tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past." »Maurice Masterlinck
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"The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living." »Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (by Karl Marx)
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"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place." »Irving Kristol
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"Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world." »Ruth Hubbard
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"An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward." »Winston Churchill
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"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward." »Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944
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"It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it." »Sen O'Faolin
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"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it." »Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
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"We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live." »David P Gardner
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"The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined." »George Eliot
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"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing." »D. H. Lawrence
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"I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition the brown bag. ... Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home." »Charles Mathias, Jr.
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"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." »Jacques Martin Barzun
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"I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat." »Prince Philip of England
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"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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