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" Quotes and Sayings About tradition

The brother or sister who does not respect the traditions of the elders will not be allowed to eat with the elders.

Who Respect Elder Eat
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The thinking person must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Must Custom Matter Choice
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Universal Class New Call
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.

Big Business Political Access
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

Also City Ground Heart
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It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

After Amazes Analyze Intelligent
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When I'm back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff.

African Back Fabric Home
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Lagos style is fresh and different. Even with the tailors, they get very innovative with their stuff, with the cuts. When my parents used to make the traditional wares, it was a little bit baggy. But now the tailors are able to infuse the European style, making it slim-fit. Lagos style is different, man. Innovative.

Able Baggy Bit Cuts
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We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

History Dam Today Worth
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My music is typically hip-hop, but with a contemporary twist. I always infuse traditional Nigerian sounds and modernize them.

Music Twist Infuse Sound
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That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time

Able Cousins Dance Dancers
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

Content Even Feet More
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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Achieve Adapt Better Change
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

Background Had Neat Parents
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In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

Bible Coffee Handle Instant
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For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

Believe I Believe I Believe That Jew
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do

About Great Kings Old
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

Done Every Failure Four
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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

Clothes Copy GeographiLeaf Live
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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.

Afghanistan Even Even Now Form
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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Ancient Child Father Grandmother
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

Against Characteristic Constant Continuity
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Intellectual Sevility Power Betray
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If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Allow Charlatans Dictators Engineer
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In Jewish tradition, dying in one’s sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that is merited by piety. For the pious person, my father once wrote, it is a privilege to die.

Tradition Jewish Dying Piety
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The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned. Believe

Occasion Tradition Courtesy Hostess
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It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship, that you're always honest with each other.

Always Basically Each Honest
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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

Aware Because Broadcast Corny
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Centuries Day Enough Just
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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Always Books Did Falling
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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

Australia Entrenched Long Tradition
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Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life.

Read Remote Southwest Tradition
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When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

About Always Another Chance
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Celtic Clubs Even Everybody
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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Amazing Brothers Celtic Could
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There are some good traditions in our culture, one of which is that men dance with women. Soon we will reach the stage where we will all have to publicly apologise for being heterosexual.

Being Culture Dance Good
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

Been Congress History Tradition
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When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

Person Responds emotionally Traditional
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

Artists Labels Resistant
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

Accountability Across Against Child
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I seek to create visually powerful stories in traditional and digital spaces that are not only different but make a difference.

Create visually Powerful stories Digital space
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I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

Charlie Charlie Parker Create Fine
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I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Circumstances Events Extraordinary ExtraordinaryCircumstances
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Atheists Authority Automatically Beliefs
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Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.

Anyone Smart phone Potential eyewitness
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Affirmation Deity One Thing Practiced
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Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.

About Being Chef Nothing
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I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Wished Assert Reasoned Independent feeling
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I'm kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.

Away Career Get I Can
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I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

Big Come Family ILove
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