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• A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.

  Winston Churchill

  Nations

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Illumination, Two, Germany

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time”

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• You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.

  Jacob Collins

  Looks, Knows

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• Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Learning, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1136, Delphi Classics

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• I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

  Jesse Helms

  Encouragement, Government, Want

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• Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.

  Jean Jaures

  Mean, Flames, Doe

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• The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor.  It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

  Pope Francis

  Biblical, Voice, Giving

  "Pope Tells Philippines Leaders To End Corruption, Hear Cries Of The Poor" by Philip Pullella and Manuel Mogato, www.businessinsider.com. January 15, 2015.

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• Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Marriage, Wind, Weather

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• Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

  Calvin Trillin

  Vampire, Excess, Garlic

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• It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

  Henry James

  History, Tourism, Literature

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America”, p.495, Library of America

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• A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

  Winston Churchill

  Patriotism, World War 2, Hours

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

  Bruce Lee

  Understanding, Shadow, Routine

  Bruce Lee, John Little (1997). “Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way”, Tuttle Publishing

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• Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

  Joseph Addison

  Important, Helping, Should

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• Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Atheist, Mind, Atheism

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

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• Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Thinking, Long, Accepting

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• Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

  Jose Bergamin

  Mean, Needs, Ends

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• A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

  Joyce Cary

  Art, Ideas, World

  Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

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• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Class, Giving

  Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)

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• The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Past, Years

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• The dead govern the living.

  Auguste Comte

  Auguste Comte (1875). “System of Positive Polity: Social statics; or, The abstract theory of human order”, p.381

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• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

  Radhanath Swami

  Oneness, Way, Spirit

  "Becoming Hindu and Finding the Essence of All Spiritual Paths" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

  Allan Bloom

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Creativity, Apology, Thinking

  "The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

  Stephen Crane

  Art, Children, Men

  Stephen Crane (1963). “Whilomville stories. The black riders, and other lines”

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• Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

  Josef Albers

  Art, Historian, Revive

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