"The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition."
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"The novel tradition is the closest thing I have to a religion, and being a part of that tradition means a lot to me. I don't really see - I never have seen - why I should have to forfeit that feeling, or hope, of belonging, just because the stories I want to tell are close to my own experience."
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"In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home."
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"Hoffmeier furnishes a sophisticated fresh approach to the Biblical Exodus traditions filled with detailed Egyptological background, and utterly indispensable because of its basis in recent, and in many cases as yet unpublished, archaeological data. This is a virtual encyclopedia of the Exodus."
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"Custom reconciles us to everything."
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"I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it."
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"You see in the Muslim traditions, it's very clear: maintaining law and consultation, not being arbitrary and oppressive. Consultation. And also in the Muslim tradition, the power comes from within the group. I think that's very important."
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"Muslims have their own traditions. The important point to bear in mind is that the whole Muslim tradition is totally and unequivocally opposed to autocratic and oppressive government. This is very, very clear."
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"I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show."
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"The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition."
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"I was a bullfighter. I'd like to see the tradition continue. I'm sorry that Catalonia is robbing itself of a tradition that belongs in Catalonia."
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"I think the progressive audience that loves Star Trek will be happy that we're continuing that tradition being progressive and all-inclusive. Star Trek's not necessarily a universe where I want to hear a lot of profanity."
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"The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people."
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"Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become."
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"In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes."
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"Settling other people's land is an American tradition."
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"Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words."
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"I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform."
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"Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions."
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"The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography."
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