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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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Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.
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Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
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Anytime an African-American writes an unconventional novel, the writer gets compared to Ellison. But that's O.K. I am working in the African-American literary tradition. That's my aim and what I see as my mission.
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So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms.
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The word 'western' usually refers to movies, of course, but there is a literary tradition of the same name that pre-dates the moving picture and retains its vitality yet.
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The tradition of Umuganda is a beautiful and inspiring one. It connects people to their surrounds and creates a responsible community.
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I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.
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Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
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As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
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And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.
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'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.
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My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.
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The tradition, particularly in old-school British detective things, is everybody's in the drawing room or the library, and they're all gathered, and the detective walks around and tells them where they were that night, and you see the flashbacks.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
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The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.
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