Traditional Quotes - Page 3

• A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

  Jane Addams

  Cities, May, Corporations

  Jane Addams, Berenice A. Carroll, Clinton F. Fink (1907). “Newer Ideals of Peace”, p.101, University of Illinois Press

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• Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Artist, Nightmare

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• The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect Kristiana Kahakauwila's intimate but expansive vision of a Hawai'i forged from the collisions of past and present, here and there. Her protagonists are as richly distinctive as the pidgin they speak, and yet each struggles profoundly with identity-that negotiation between ourselves and the world, which is at once Hawaiian, American, universally and compellingly human.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Struggle, Past, Vision

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• It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the start. None of the presidents who waged war in Vietnam contemplated an open-ended campaign; all promised the public that American troops would be able to leave in the not-too-remote future. The promise of withdrawel precluded a policy of occupation of the traditional colonial sort, in which a great power simply imposes its will on a small one indefinitely.

  Jonathan Schell

  War, Keys, Promise

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• Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not naive." "I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive." "This is why I have no politics," said Darvin. "I can't think in those terms.

  Ken MacLeod

  Thinking, Southern, Way

  Ken MacLeod (2012). “Learning The World: A novel of first contact”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• Vertical search engines that match your business, service or products with a target market offer you a higher conversion rate than traditional search engines. Because they have already qualified their interest by coming to a search engine with a specific focus, searchers will be more receptive to targeted advertising.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Focus, Target Market, Advertising

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Acceptance, Land, Generosity

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• Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced.

  Jo Walton

  Religious, Dragons, Church

  Jo Walton (2003). “Tooth and Claw”, p.41, Macmillan

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• As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people - the underlying value of that which is traditional, of that which is prescriptive.

  Enoch Powell

  Clever, People, Important

  Enoch Powell's Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. November 19, 1968.

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• The traditional American husband and father had the responsibilities-and the privileges-of playing the role of primary provider. Sharing that role is not easy. To yield exclusive access to the role is to surrender some of the potential for fulfilling the hero fantasy-a fantasy that appeals to us all. The loss is far from trivial.

  Faye J Crosby

  Husband, Father, Hero

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• I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory .

  Peter J. Carroll

  Self, Magic, World

  "The Apophenion : A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.

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• Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers were very into traditional music, English and Irish. They were always playing music, so I was always brought up with it.

  Kate Bush

  Mother, Brother, Playing Music

  "The Great Lost Kate Bush Interview". Interview with Paul Iorio, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1985.

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• They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty. Or, they tell us, they are rough-and-ready proles, laughing along with us at the efforts of our social "betters" to reform and improve us. That they are often, in fact, people of privilege doing their utmost to boost the fortunes of a political party that is the traditional tool of the privileged is a contradiction that does not trouble them.

  Thomas Frank

  Real, Party, Laughing

  "What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America". Book by Thomas Frank, June1, 2004.

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• The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.

  Martin Heidegger

  Average, Understanding, Way

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh, Dennis J. Schmidt (2010). “Being and Time”, p.5, SUNY Press

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• The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber was fired for continuing to use the traditional term "ballcock" for the toilet flotation unit, instead of the new politically correct term, sanitized of sexual suggestiveness. This is insane. We are back to the Victorian era, when table legs had to be draped lest they put the thought of ladies' legs into someone's dirty mind.

  Camille Paglia

  Dirty, Hands, Mind

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style.

  Jerry Brown

  Past, Style, Execution

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• Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Nihilism, Today, Terrorism

  "The spirit of terrorism" by Jean Baudrillard, ("The Violence of the Global"), 2003.

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• The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.

  Negash Ali

  Rap, Singers, Backgrounds

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don't really like going to photo shoots. I don't like stylists.

  Charlie Watts

  Dresses, Stylist, Embarrassed

  "Charlie Watts's Guide to Dressing Like a Gentleman". Interview with Mary Kaye Schilling, www.gq.com. June 29, 2012.

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• The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

  Hannah Arendt

  Years, Way, Convincing

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Class, Down And, Rich

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• I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Order, Too Much

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• Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

  Gloria Steinem

  Way, Married, Seems

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• Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Past, Tree, Culture

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• The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move from traditional resources to the one asset: knowledge.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Moving, Creativity, Innovation

  Speech at Crans Montana Forum, Switzerland, June 27, 1999.

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