"If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that."
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"I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis."
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"The communal experience of sharing something, and being part of it, and watching something visually striking, that's what film is all about. Seeing everything on a big screen, and to be able to see something phenomenal in that way, and being moved by it. We have kind of lost the tradition of that, and we're not nurturing the next generation in that tradition, and maybe that's why they're not turning up."
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"I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition."
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"India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial."
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"I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh."
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"I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater."
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"Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered."
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"Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build."
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"Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold."
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"All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death."
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"Who wrote the Bible? Current scholarship, to my knowledge, assumes that the material that constitutes the Old Testament was put together from various oral and folk traditions (many of them going far back) in the Hellenistic period. That was one of several currents, of which the collection that formed the New Testament was another."
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"...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!"
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"Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory."
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"So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old."
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"In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead."
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"The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it."
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"Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?"
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"As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education."
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"If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful."
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