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• Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

  Harold MacMillan

  Mean, Doe

  1963 In theManchester Guardian, 18 Dec.

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• Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

  Glenn Gould

  Reality, Responsible, Honestly

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• Tradition is a prop for social security.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Social, Props, Security

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• Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Past, Moments, Stale

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• As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.

  Igor Babailov

  Art, Wind, Demand

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• Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.

  John French Sloan

  School, Artist, Drawing

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• Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in any given situation. We just have to be quiet enough to let that course of action present itself to us. And we need the confidence to act when life shows us what we need to do.

  Brad Warner

  Confidence, Buddhist, Believe

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.46, New World Library

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• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Karma, Religious

  "Especially for Christians: Powerful Thought-provoking Words from the Past" by Mark Alton Rose, (p. 19), 2005.

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• Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Army, British Navy

  In Sir Peter Gretton Former Naval Person (1968) ch. 1

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• Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

  Ellen Goodman

  Powerful, Mind, Driven

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• Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?

  Paul Cezanne

  School, Juice, Carrots

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• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Teaching, Diversity, Social Justice

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Creation

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• Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Military, Reading

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  Jacques Barzun

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

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• Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

  Dorothy Day

  Names, Mediocrity, Proud

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• (Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Democracy

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• You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

  James Agee

  Time, Preparation, Tunes

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• All tradition is merely the past.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Past, Culture

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• There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

  Alexander Herzen

  Pieces, Stubborn, World

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• In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

  Russell Baker

  America, Easier, Dies

  "A Little Bones Trouble". The New York Times Opinion Page, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 1991.

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• If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

  T. S. Eliot

  Basketball, Want, Individual Talent

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

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• When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.

  Gayl Jones

  Talking, People, Connections

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• It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

  Hisham Matar

  Artist, Belief, Sometimes

  "Ask the Author Live: Hisham Matar on Libya". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. October 25, 2011.

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• The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.

  Morris Berman

  Spiritual, Real, Work

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