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• He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.

  John of Damascus

  Believe, Catholic, Church

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• I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Practice, Lgbt

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition. Such are the extreme Turks that wander about in the north, the Kushites who live in the south, and those in our country who are like these. I consider these as irrational beings, and not as human beings; they are below mankind, but above monkeys, since they have the form and shape of man, and a mental faculty above that of the monkey.

  Maimonides

  Country, Religious, Animal

  Moses Maimonides (1961). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.384, Courier Corporation

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• A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.

  John Ralston Saul

  Self, Civilization, Economics

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• I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a link in the chain.' It's a strong chain, so rely on it. ... I believe it takes all those great songs in the past to make your song even a little bit good.

  Ketch Secor

  Song, Strong, Believe

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• The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Faith, Country, Countries Of The World

  "This week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established.

  Saint Augustine

  Passion, Heaven, Special

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• The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.

  St. Jerome

  Running, Law, Giving

  "The Sacred Writings of St. Jerome".

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• Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it is clear that they did not hand down everything by letter, but there is much also that was not written. Like that which was written, the unwritten too is worthy of belief. So let us regard the Tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a Tradition? Seek no further.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Hands, Church, Letters

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• Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

  Peter Brook

  Revolution, Dogmatism, Force

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• We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and unbridled desire of novelty, truth is not sought where it truly resides, and, with a disregard for the holy and apostolic traditions, other vain, futile, uncertain doctrines, not approved by the Church are accepted as true, on which very vain men mistakenly think that truth itself is supported and sustained.

  Pope Gregory XVI

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

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• For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it does not condemn diversity, but it eagerly and willingly grants to each nation the right to keep and preserve the legitimate customs and traditions of its forbears.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Diversity, Sacred, Doe

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• The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men have no more sense than to adopt. I will illustrate it by an old apple tree. Here jumps off a branch and says, I am the true tree, and you are corrupt. If the whole tree is corrupt, are not its branches corrupt? If the Catholic religion is a false religion, how can any true religion come out of it? If the Catholic church is bad, how can any good thing come out of it?

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Apples, Catholic Religion

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• India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Past, Men

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• That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

  Satish Kumar

  Real, Buddhism, India

  "Walking The World For Peace". Interview with Robert Gilman, www.context.org.

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• The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made a point: we are integrating you into the Danish tradition of satire because you are part of our society, not strangers. The cartoons are including, rather than excluding, Muslims.

  Flemming Rose

  Buddhism, Islam, Cartoon

  "Why I Published Those Cartoons". www.washingtonpost.com. February 19, 2006.

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• The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Responsibility, Political, Allies

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• Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

  Aldous Huxley

  Language, Individual, Victim

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• We also think this is a reminder of the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy that has been the hallmark of America at moments of greatest need, and that's the kind of spirit that we hope will be reflected in our administration.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, America, Long

  "Cnn Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2009.

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• Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise. What is clear is that politics will not stop at the water's edge simply because presidents plead for it. American foreign policy will return to the tradition of Truman and Vandenberg only when the American public demands it.

  James M. Lindsay

  Wise, Water, President

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• Foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating policies based on moderation and on the recognition of the complexity of the human condition. That has been the tradition since the days of Truman and Vandenberg all the way until recent times.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mean, Democracy, United States

  Address to the New American Strategies Conference, October 28, 2003.

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• There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Knowing, Humanity

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.208, Vintage

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• In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

  Karl Marx

  Honesty, Past, Men

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.594, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you get inducted into. I'm just experimenting.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Writing, Thinking, Bob

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