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• The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

  William Rounseville Alger

  God, Believer, Universe

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• All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.

  Barbara Myerhoff

  Realization, May, Sacred

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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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• The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Men, Self

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.142, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

  Jon Meacham

  Religious, Prayer, School

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• I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and a a play with our expectations of that.

  Rick Alverson

  Thinking, Play, Expectations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Luxury is obviously the direction that interests me the most, but there is a lot of confusion between luxury and exhibitionism. For me, the concept of luxury is more traditional, more exclusive, more sophisticated than luxury for the masses.

  Giorgio Armani

  Luxury, Confusion, Exhibitionism

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• The Soviet Union attempted to export communism to the entire world. We know what came of that. Now the West is trying to export democracy, including to regions where there is no traditional foundation for it. That cannot end well.

  Vladimir Yakunin

  Trying, Democracy, Unions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that isn't a priority in the traditional program of learning. This is unacceptable in a so-called 'enlightened' society.

  Ken Danby

  Art, Priorities, Commodity

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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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• What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?

  Jane Addams

  Men, Race, Order

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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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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• Two widely dissimilar races, whether equal or not, cannot peaceably coexist in the same territory until they are either uniformly mongrelised or cast in folkways of permanent and traditional personal aloofness.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Race, Two, Territory

  Letter to James F. Morton (January 1931), in "Selected Letters III, 1929-1931" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 253), 1971.

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• An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  War, Power, Years

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• For the last several decades, there was a prevailing belief among traditional economists that the markets were rational and self-correcting. Alan Greenspan advocated this view. But the 2008 financial crisis showed that this view is incorrect, and Greenspan eventually admitted as much.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Self, Views, Lasts

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

  Michel Foucault

  Philosophy, Errors, Order

  Michel Foucault (1990). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, Vintage

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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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• 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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• The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.

  Christine O'Donnell

  America, People, Elements

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• In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?

  Philip Zimbardo

  Drama, People, Evil

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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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• You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can't you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.

  Ferran Adria

  Cooking, Recipes, May

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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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• 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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