Traditional Quotes - Page 40

• For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

  George W. S. Trow

  Men, Tradition, Restless

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• The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

  Augustus

  Lying, Mind, Roles

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• If support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.

  Marco Rubio

  Support, Election, Barack

  "Rubio dives into gay marriage debate" by Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. July 23, 2014.

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• I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Teenage, Love You, Ducks

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• I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

  Joe Nichols

  Country, Always Trying, Challenges

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• For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.

  William Harvey

  Blood, Medicine, Doe

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• Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Internet, Comic

  "Exclusive: Harvey Pekar Talks Webcomics, Art And His New Series, 'The Pekar Project'". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. September 8, 2009.

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• If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

  James Dobson

  Law, Land, Institutions

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• Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.

  Sander Levin

  Jobs, Teaching, Nursing

  "The Fight for Women’s Equality Continues" by Rep. Sandy Levin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

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• The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in a less hierarchical world... Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they’re going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job. Don’t plan too much, and don’t expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Sheryl Sandberg's Speech on Harvard Business School Class Day in Cambridge, Massachusetts., www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.

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• As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.

  Joe Montana

  Football, Air, Hands

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

  Harvey Cox

  Meaningful, Christian, Religious

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• Traditional Judeo-Christian values literally hang in the balance in America. They can be 'forgotten' in a single generation if they are not taught to children and teenagers... It could happen here if we don't defend what we believe.

  James Dobson

  Christian, Religious, Children

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• No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Groups

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• I remain a religious agnostic, but, unlike most atheists, I not only am not hostile to traditional religion but consider it a highly valuable, not to say essential, social institution... I am convinced that the moral regeneration and repair of a frayed social fabric that this country so badly needs will not take place unless more people take their religion seriously.

  Guenter Lewy

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

  Guenter Lewy

  Christian, Religious, Literature

  Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.36, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Militant homosexuals, pro-abortionists, occultists, New Agers, pornographers, radical feminists, atheists, paganists and a whole collection of angry anti-Christian groups are all coming out of their closets and onto the battlefield. Their common denominator is a hatred for Christianity and for any expression of traditional values.

  Carman

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution

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• With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls 'Christophobia .' Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture - aliens in a land their forefathers' beliefs and values established and built.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Religious, Government

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• Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.

  Paul Vitz

  Christian, Religious, Children

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• The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Passive Voice, Nouns, Adjectives

  Benjamin Lee Whorf, John B. Carroll, Stephen C. Levinson, Penny Lee (2012). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.113, MIT Press

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• It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today's children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Believe, School

  Marie Winn (1983). “Children Without Childhood”, New York : Pantheon Books

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• I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,--if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,--if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,--if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men--I will have none of it.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Religious, Men, Giving

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.187, Rowman & Littlefield

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• My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show [Desperate Housewives]. She was so angry because I was on television kissing a boy naked; she's very traditional. She said: "If I ever see you kissing that boy again...".

  Eva Longoria

  Grandma, Kissing, Boys

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• Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Family, Money, Work

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• Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Children, America, Together

  Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.25, Basic Books

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