- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tradition Quotes
What we carry forward, and why it matters.
Tradition here is personal and inherited - a performer noting South India's deep arts culture, and a Sikh explaining the religious tradition of never cutting one's hair. Related reading: Family.
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- Negativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, there's a lot of negativity, but basketball is such a huge thing in my community. Flint has a very rich tradition in basketball.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.
- Confederation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Switzerland, we have a centuries-old tradition of living together in one confederation and one society. That holds us back from excesses. We are a civilized and enlightened community and, by practising multicultural tolerance, we manage to stop extreme developments from going too far.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie - she is gone on now - I feel her right with me.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it's usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and his ilk. My take on all this was that it's a metaphor for empire and the end of empire.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers. I knew that wasn't an option for me. My mother would never have been able to afford that.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's a proud tradition we have of a diverse representation from the Maryland congressional delegation.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved 'Paranormal Activity.' It was one of my favorites before. It was a tradition; my friends and I went every year.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We're not like Ricky Gervais's hyper-real cringe comedy. We're at the other end of the scale, but there's room for the sillier stuff, too.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020