“ Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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“ Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of. ”
- Ellen Goodman- Copy
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“ Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. ”
- Arthur Hugh Clough- Copy
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“ When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday: when I am at Milan I do not. Do the same. Follow the custom of the church where you are. ”
- Saint Ambrose- Copy
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“ A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. ”
- Salvatore Quasimodo- Copy
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“ One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. ”
- Northrop Frye- Copy
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“ Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. ”
- Lemony Snicket- Copy
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“ Learning to touch deeply the jewels of our own tradition will allow us to understand and appreciate the values of other traditions. ”
- Thich Nhat Hanh- Copy
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“ We have tradition that so we believe, because both we from our predecessors, and they from theirs, have so received. ”
- Richard Hooker- Copy
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“ When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. ”
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin- Copy
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“ I know but little of the customs of war, and wish to know less. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
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“ Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
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“ It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem. ”
- Robbie Williams- Copy
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“ It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights — even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down. ”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy- Copy
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“ I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it. ”
- Aaron Allston- Copy
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“ Congress had embarrassed itself at having produced so little. It had to look as if it could do something. ”
- Richard Darman- Copy
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“ Oh, Congress should let it go? Gee, I wonder why he would say that. ”
- Barry Bonds- Copy
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“ This is the best thing that can be done, short of new laws... given the deadlock in Congress. ”
- Charles Schumer- Copy
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“ The role of a female outlaw was not exactly custom-made for someone recently out of a finishing-school! ”
- Gene Tierney- Copy
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