"For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share."
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"Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom."
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"Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions."
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"It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion."
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"(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead."
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"If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto."
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"Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time."
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"I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."
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"In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism."
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"Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie."
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"A tradition without intelligence is not worth having."
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"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."
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"The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living."
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"There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise."
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"He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case."
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"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it."
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"The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars."
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"I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill."
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"Custom is almost a second nature."
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"There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics."
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