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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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- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.
- Friday
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever one thinks of Twitter, the Friday Reads hashtag is kind of a cool tradition.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
- Decorating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For everyday, we like Beaujolais, Grenache or Syrah, and we like a lot of it! It's a family tradition: We would never consider having a meal without wine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020