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"I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions."
"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."
"Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith."
"The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it"
"When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day."
"All tradition is merely the past."
"Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen."
"Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion."
"Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt."
"Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one (I can sense that continuously, which is why I can say that I know this for sure) to sense that connectedness with the one consciousness that pervades the universe, which in some traditions is called God, to sense that frees you of fear, from anxiety, and takes you to a very deep place of peace, but also of heightened aliveness."
"A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it."
"What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us."
"We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature."
"We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure."
"You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!"
"traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy."
"Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals."
"I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me."
"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation."
"Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought."
