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A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.
The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.
There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.
I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.
I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.
You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.
So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.
There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.
As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.
One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and doing a show.
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.
Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?
For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.
The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?
Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.
One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.
Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition.
We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.
I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.
An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.
Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.
Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.