"Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality."
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"You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way."
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"Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"
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"Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking."
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"We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God."
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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."
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"[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology."
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"Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century."
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"A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them."
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"Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories."
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"Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers."
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"Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you."
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"We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions."
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"The most authentic and hallowed Wiccan tradition is stealing from any source that didn't run away too fast"
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"Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically."
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"Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights."
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"American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders."
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"The one thing I've said to [Donald Trump] directly, and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the country, is just make sure that, as we go forward certain norms, certain institutional traditions don't get eroded, because there's a reason they're in place."
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"I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life."
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"The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA."
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