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• Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

  Sam Harris

  Crazy, Buddhism, Thinking

  "A Contemplative Science" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2006.

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• Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Moral, Reason, Products

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• Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

  Brad Henry

  Senior, Art, Children

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• Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.

  Francois Hollande

  Country, People, Political

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• There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Literature, Form

  Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Father, Entrepreneur, Political

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• I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

  Jonathan Ive

  Design, Benefits, Wonderful

  "Apple designer behind the iPod and iPhone receives knighthood". www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2012.

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• My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

  Penn Jillette

  Grandparent, Way, Teetotalers

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

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• I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

  Philip Johnson

  Twists, Mold, Riches

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• I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mean, Commitment, Fighting

  Interview with Nicholas Confessore, David M. Halbfinger, www.nytimes.com. December 27, 2008.

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• I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Country, Thinking, Pages

  The NewsBusters Interview, www.newsbusters.org. September 18, 2012.

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• There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Home, Female Role Models, Southern

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• I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Cities

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• As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition.

  Jon Landau

  Writing, Rocks, Dancing

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• In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

  Ang Lee

  Shoes, Culture, Situation

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• It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

  Damian Lewis

  Running, Latin, Party

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• When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hands, People, Guy

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• I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

  Loretta Lynn

  Scotland, Mountain, England

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.30, Vintage

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• The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Artist, Thinking, Citizens

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 7, 2013.

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• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  Wangari Maathai

  Men, People, Feelings

  "I Will Disappear Into the Forest". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2005.

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• I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

  Henning Mankell

  Different, Awful, Way

  "A life in writing: Henning Mankell" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I make our family traditions a priority.

  Martina McBride

  Priorities, Family Tradition, Our Family

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• An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

  Jon Meacham

  Rejection, Mind, Liberty

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• The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

  Jon Meacham

  Fighting, Support, Intellectual

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