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• All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Math, Technology

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• We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

  Jimmy Wales

  Impact, People, Being Ignored

  The Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. June 29, 2007.

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• I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, People, Authority

  "The Saturday interview: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2011.

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• I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

  Vera Wang

  Artist, Past, Giving

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• I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.

  Gerard Way

  Feelings, Negative, Bizarre

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• For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

  Andrew Weil

  Exercise, Meditation, World

  "Breathwalking: A Meditative Exercise" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2013.

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• I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

  E. O. Wilson

  Christian, Teaching, Generosity

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• In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.

  E. O. Wilson

  Loyalty, Military, School

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• Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Views, Theory Of Evolution

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• The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Believe, Southern, Humanity

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• I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course.

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Epiphanies: Lord Robert Winston". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. June 4, 2006.

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• What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.

  Felicia Day

  Media, Space, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.

  Martin Filler

  Cities, Doe, Purpose

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• Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.

  Martin Filler

  Imagination, Avant Garde, Natural Elements

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• Journalists don't have audiences, they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.

  Howard Rheingold

  Editors, Letters, Deals

  "Howard Rheingold: Knowing How to Collaborate Is Essential". Interview with Roland Legrand, mediashift.org. March 12, 2012.

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• The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

  Joseph Heller

  Country, Exercise, Rights

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Science, Air

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Sick, Support, Stronger

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• Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.

  Walter Moers

  Holiday, Half, Atlantis

  Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.296, The Overlook Press

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• Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

  Laurie Anderson

  Inspirational, Book, Learning

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• A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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• If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

  Margaret Mead

  Past, People, Support

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• The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Unique, Zest, Self

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• Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

  Daniel Handler

  Healing, Teens, Reason

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• Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Ceilings, Matter, Location

  "Cyteen". Book by C. J. Cherryh, 1988.

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