Tradition Quotes - Page 8

• A great unification is now taking place between science and spirituality. The most advanced discoveries of modern science are rising to reaffirm the timeless wisdom of the great religious and spiritual traditions of every culture.

  John Hagelin

  Spiritual, Religious, Discovery

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• [Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

  Elie Wiesel

  Country, Religious, Principles

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture.

  Miranda Kerr

  Memorable, Japan, Different

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• Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Healing, Heart, Community

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.122, John Wiley & Sons

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• In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like a tamale made of bananas, and we make it all together. Like, all the women of the family unite, and it's a very big deal, a very big thing.

  Joyce Giraud

  Together, Typical, Tamales

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• We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as unique human beings. God created us different, but God did not create us for separation. God created us different that we might recognize our need for one another. We must reverence our uniqueness, reverence everything that makes us what we are: our language, our culture, our religious tradition.

  Desmond Tutu

  Religious, Unique, Differences

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• Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

  Edward Snowden

  Strong, People, Hong Kong

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals featuring pentagrams, swords, and invocations. That's fine, people need to give free reign to their imagination and to go through certain stages. Anyone who gets through those stages without being deceived will eventually get in touch with the Tradition.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Imagination, People

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• One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Political, Inheritance, Elements

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• It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.

  Hooman Majd

  Islamic, Issues, Ramadan

  "Interview with Hooman Majd: US-Iran Relations in the Age of the Ayatollah". Interview with Jon Letman, mronline.org. October 4, 2010.

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• I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well - including the brilliant work of Paulo Freire, Zygmunt Bauman, Loic Wacquant, Nancy Fraser, Tony Judt, and others.

  Henry Giroux

  Numbers, Archives, Brilliant

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man and a cine camera, were amazing to watch because he was such a great talker.

  Jonathan Meades

  Men, Television, Cameras

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. And they understood the kind of release from piety that it represented every week.

  Scott Simon

  Knowing, Charlie Hebdo, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the way in; it's the door; and then what's behind it is always some kind of people, which I think probably makes me more in the tradition of realistic fiction because that's usually what I'm interested in, the people.

  Jess Walter

  Thinking, Doors, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.

  Joyce Giraud

  Phones, Matter, Tvs

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• One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to confine the stories you can tell about characters to tropes of bone-headed action and old models of psychological realism. And as readers, too, we have been conditioned to understand characters as - and forgive me for saying it out loud - what the market says they should be. Namely, safe, clean, proper.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Character, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't feel the individualist anarchists, particularly in the American tradition, including the Transcendental tradition of New England, in any way deserve the derogatory comments that are often made about them by the left. When one gets down to it ultimately, my anarcho-communism stems from a commitment to true individuality. My attempt to recover the power and the right of the individual to control his or her life and destiny is the basis to my anarcho-communism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Commitment, Destiny, Individuality

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order to truly understand the American founding.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Order, Intellectual, Enlightenment

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

  Larry Hurtado

  Philosophical, Live Your Life, Everyday

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The one thing I've said to [Donald Trump] directly, and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the country, is just make sure that, as we go forward certain norms, certain institutional traditions don't get eroded, because there's a reason they're in place.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Republican, Reason

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].

  David LaChapelle

  Mother, Brother, Growing Up

  Source: wwd.com

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• Most of what the founders knew about the Hebraic republic, it must be emphasized, they learned from the Bible. These Americans were well aware that ideas like republicanism found expression in traditions apart from the Hebrew experience, and, indeed, they studied these traditions both ancient and modern.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Ideas, Expression, Republic

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of people - law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term, but as used by some existentialists, it nicely captures what Nietzsche admired - the resolve of an individual person to forge his or her own 'table of values', to be emancipated from strait-jacketing conventions, traditions, and ideologies. As embodied in the 'Overman', authenticity is the antidote to 'bad' nihilism.

  David E. Cooper

  Nihilism, Tables, Kind

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.

  Brian Balogh

  Want, Trump, Precedent

  Source: www.wbur.org

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