Tradition Quotes - Page 7

• We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

  Barack Obama

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Gun

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The one thing I've said to [Donald Trump] directly, and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the country, is just make sure that, as we go forward certain norms, certain institutional traditions don't get eroded, because there's a reason they're in place.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Republican, Reason

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

  Al Pacino

  Italian, Emotion, Violent

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• All the eight years of [Barack] Obama when [George W.] Bush was asked repeatedly, "I don't do that. I had my time. It's his time now." The protocols and the history, the traditions say that past presidents don't comment. That didn't work for Bill Clinton. He couldn't help himself. Obama is not commenting, but Obama is actively engaged in the sabotage of the [Donald] Trump administration, with all of these community organizing uprisings.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Past, Eight, Years

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.

  Brian Balogh

  Want, Trump, Precedent

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

  Karla Souza

  Sunday, Alive, Want

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

  Karla Souza

  Hands, Theme, Universal

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

  Larry Hurtado

  Philosophical, Live Your Life, Everyday

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Justin's testimony about becoming a Christian is that he had been searching various philosophical traditions of the time, and then accidentally encountered a man who posed questions that pointed Justin [Martyr ] in a new direction.

  Larry Hurtado

  Christian, Philosophical, Men

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the character to the performer.

  John Hurt

  Character, Hollywood, British

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You had a socialist get 47 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary: Bernie Sanders. You have an outright white nationalist populist [Donald Trump] who is now in the White House with an authoritarian strongman who has no regard for facts, no regard for tradition, and no regard for the Constitution. That is what you get when you import third world conditions. You get third world politics, and that's where we are now.

  Van Jones

  White, House, World

  Source: pen.org

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• I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Communication, Jewish Tradition

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, People, Church

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Tradition has to be retaken by the liberal forces, so that they can show their values of tolerance and democracy not as novel western ideas but as ones indigenous to Pakistan, as a part of its very creation.

  Steve Inskeep

  Ideas, Tolerance, Democracy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Tradition sometimes excludes the girl child from inheriting; or single women may not want to be perceived as pursuing too much property. The law has come a long way in favor of the woman, but it is the tradition, the attitudes, that we often have to fight.

  Wangari Maathai

  Girl, Attitude, Children

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly gifted Hippasus, discovered irrational numbers that he sent the poor fellow out on a raft to drown, initiating a venerable tradition of professors mistreating their graduate students.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Irrational Numbers, Legends, Students

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.31, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When you ban people from predominantly Muslim countries from coming into the U.S., even people who accompanied our soldiers and helped them on the battlefield, but you say, "But, of course, there's gonna be an exception if you're a religious minority," - OK, so that means Christians, there will be a different rule applied to Christians from these countries than others - that's a religious test. And that is completely contrary to our national traditions.

  Tim Kaine

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term, but as used by some existentialists, it nicely captures what Nietzsche admired - the resolve of an individual person to forge his or her own 'table of values', to be emancipated from strait-jacketing conventions, traditions, and ideologies. As embodied in the 'Overman', authenticity is the antidote to 'bad' nihilism.

  David E. Cooper

  Nihilism, Tables, Kind

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If you take a flower to Mars, for example, the hostility of Mars probably won't allow the flower to live without oxygen. The process of being an artist, for someone who wasn't born in an arts-centric environment - I came from the Bahamas, where there's not a historic tradition of art-making, at least from the Western prospective - in a way is kind of an alien concept.

  Tavares Strachan

  Art, Flower, Oxygen

  "Tavares Strachan's desert explosion" by Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2017.

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• The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn - the end of the 19th century, when we achieved power a generation after the Civil War, the outlines of an American vision came into focus, and what we - it was based on two things. One, our realization that our values and our interests were the same, and that our business interests would advance as our values advanced in the world.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Two, Focus

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Republicans - Reagan but also George W. Bush - believed in freedom, and they believed in America's role. To have the governing party speak in terms of a zero-sum world, or speak in terms of America's purpose as no more than grabbing the largest share possible in the short run, goes against our foreign policy tradition that goes back to 1900, really.

  Daniel Fried

  Running, Zero, Party

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts at external aggression, when they fail, usually bring on areas of internal reform.

  Daniel Fried

  Russia, Effort, Reform

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I am not one of these people that believes that Russia is doomed, or somehow, you know, inevitably disposed to act according to its worst traditions. But all the more reason, therefore, to resist their aggression and take it seriously.

  Daniel Fried

  Believe, Russia, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think that Hillary Clinton has an appreciation that American power needs to be put in the service of American values, which is an American tradition and a pretty good one, and I think she was willing to do that.

  Daniel Fried

  Appreciation, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I don't think we in Ireland have to follow slavishly what other countries have done. Ireland has its own strengths - in family life, in the local community, in the concept of meitheal, a very traditional form of cooperation in rural Ireland. Three or four or five neighbors get together, exchanging labor, farm equipment, and so on. There are strong solidarity overtones. That tradition is being translated today into community self-development.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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