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• Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

  Harold MacMillan

  Mean, Doe

  1963 In theManchester Guardian, 18 Dec.

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• What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

  Andy Warhol

  Country, Artist, Commercial Art

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.86, MIT Press

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• Tradition is a prop for social security.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Social, Props, Security

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• Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  New York, Mean, Years

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• The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Plato, Philosophical, Knowledge

  Process and Reality pt. 2, ch. 1 (1929)

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• I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

  Herman Wouk

  Jewish Tradition, Inheritance, Wealth

  Time Magazine, September 05, 1955.

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• Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Past, Moments, Stale

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• Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Army, British Navy

  In Sir Peter Gretton Former Naval Person (1968) ch. 1

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• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Karma, Religious

  "Especially for Christians: Powerful Thought-provoking Words from the Past" by Mark Alton Rose, (p. 19), 2005.

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• Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

  Ellen Goodman

  Powerful, Mind, Driven

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• Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?

  Paul Cezanne

  School, Juice, Carrots

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• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Teaching, Diversity, Social Justice

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Creation

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• Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Military, Reading

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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• (Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Democracy

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• Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

  Dorothy Day

  Names, Mediocrity, Proud

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• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  Jacques Barzun

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

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• You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

  James Agee

  Time, Preparation, Tunes

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• All tradition is merely the past.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Past, Culture

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• There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

  Alexander Herzen

  Pieces, Stubborn, World

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• If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

  T. S. Eliot

  Basketball, Want, Individual Talent

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

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• In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

  Russell Baker

  America, Easier, Dies

  "A Little Bones Trouble". The New York Times Opinion Page, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 1991.

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• When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.

  Gayl Jones

  Talking, People, Connections

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• The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.

  Morris Berman

  Spiritual, Real, Work

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• It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

  Hisham Matar

  Artist, Belief, Sometimes

  "Ask the Author Live: Hisham Matar on Libya". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. October 25, 2011.

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