"Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime."
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"The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness."
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"To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom."
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"There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry."
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"Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following."
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"To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost."
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"Tradition was safety; change was danger."
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"If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions."
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"The guru is a tremendous tradition because is a guide, it's a guide to life, and we can guide energetically, we can guide in our thought, we can have a prayer that travels wonderful things."
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"The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom."
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"Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful."
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"We're going to have to change our traditions, our history."
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