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• I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

  Ian Frazier

  Religious, Men, Medicine

  Ian Frazier (2000). “On the Rez”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

  Noah Feldman

  Memories, Self, Practice

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• The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors.

  Reem Acra

  Girl, Ideas, Ivory

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• Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Religious, Men, Color

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• Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are lots of techniques they had not thought about before.

  Robert D. Hare

  School, Skills, Technique

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• Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.

  Bernie Siegel

  Doctors, Deny, Mystic

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• I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

  Heidi Julavits

  Fiction, Kind, Adore

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• I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

  Ted Naifeh

  Roots, Feelings, Monsters

  "Ted Naifeh Talks Courtney Crumrin & the Prince of Nowhere". Interview with Lan Pitts, www.newsarama.com. October 23, 2008.

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• I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives, it's part of our culture we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.

  Karan Johar

  Song, Religious, Sleep

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. March 29, 2007.

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• For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

  Sarah Zettel

  Males, Peers, Matter

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• I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Charity, Poverty, Facts

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• I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Children, Truth

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Play, America, Optimism

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• What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are they unformed? I think that all these quite traditional questions can take one simplistic but still dialectical question as their summing up: do we choose tradition or does it choose us, and why is it necessary that a choosing take place, or a being chosen? What happens if one tries to write, or to teach, or to think, or even to read without the sense of a tradition? Why, nothing at all happens, just nothing.

  Harold Bloom

  Writing, Thinking, Views

  Harold Bloom (2003). “A Map of Misreading”, p.31, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on the Africans--who were not allowed to learn to read and write--and on the Native Americans, who were simply not allowed.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, Writing, Native American

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Technology, Division Of Labor, Challenges

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• The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Education, Children, Believe

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• In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Discovery, Trends

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• No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Country, Kings, Past

  Gretchen Rubin (2004). “Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life”, p.12, Random House

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• If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

  Gene Black

  Art, Missing, Would Be

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• The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.214, Library of America

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• Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Running, Children, School

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• All people here have political rights, social rights, rights to employment, and no one should face discrimination, but our strategic choice is for traditional families, healthy families and a healthy nation. One does not exclude the other and does not hinder the other. I think this is a balanced approach and is entirely the right approach.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Rights, People

  "Human Rights Watch criticizes Russia, says it fails to protect LGBT people" by Susannah Cullinane, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2014.

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• When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement of the world-machine established in our behalf by the best and most systematic builder of all, existed among the philosophers who had studied so exactly in other respects the minutest details in regard to the sphere.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Long, Details, Machines

  "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Preface Letter to Pope Paul III)". Book by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543.

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• There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection against the federalist superstate.

  Gisela Stuart

  Views, Protection, Danger

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