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Tony [Campolo] and I might disagree on the details, but I think we are both trying to find an alternative to both traditional Universalism and the narrow, exclusivist understanding of hell [that unless you explicitly accept and follow Jesus, you are excluded from eternal life with God and destined for hell].

Brian D. McLaren

Jesus, Thinking, Understanding

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In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness

Laura Mulvey

Strong, Impact, Erotic

Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.19, Springer

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In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence

Ry Cooder

Music, Taken, Guitar

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I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very traditional format of country music, and he came up with something completely different

Emmylou Harris

Music, Country, Writing

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Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to vivid life four extraordinary and audacious women, and runs glorious roughshod over all our traditional notions of the role of women in the Civil War.

Megan Abbott

Running, Liars, War

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In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

Vandana Shiva

Mother, Agriculture, Giving

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The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion - very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check. However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu.

P. J. O'Rourke

Fashion, Morning, Coffee

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.318, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

Bertha Knight Landes

Feminist, Overcoming, Prejudice

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My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves.

Carl Sagan

God, Passion, Religion

Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters

Busta Rhymes

New York, Stomping, Knows

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

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There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it's just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.

Louie Gohmert

Gun, Law, Lines

"Louie Gohmert Links Gun Magazine Limits To Gay Marriage, Bestiality" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

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Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.

Thomas Sowell

Men, Ninety Nine, Ideas

Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, Basic Books

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Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa.

Paul Watzlawick

Reality, Ideas, Risk

"How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication".

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This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl Schurz. It is far more accurate and illuminating however, to view it as a three-cornered fight. The third group was a coalition of businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would enter and dominate all underdeveloped areas of the world.

William Appleman Williams

Fighting, Doors, Views

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It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It’s not what you say that prompts it -
it’s the fact that you are saying it.

Mary Beard

Abuse, Males, Lines

"The Troll Slayer" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. September 1, 2014.

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You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

John Bradshaw

Passion, Energy, Want

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Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

Peter Drucker

Distance, Classroom, Campus

"I got my degree through E-mail" by Lisa Gubernick, Ebeling, www.forbes.com. June 16, 1997.

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It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, as expressed in our traditional common law.

Stephen Harper

Men, Law, Support

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It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada.

Stephen Harper

Party, Reality, Thinking

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The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.

Stephen Harper

Practice, Community, Facts

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I'm not a traditional sonero, at least not in the way they want me to be, I'm an interpreter, and I reach people in a different level.

Marc Anthony

People, Different, Levels

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

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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.

Randy Travis

Country, Thinking, Needs

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Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

Noel Gallagher

Men, Rocks, Oasis

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I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

Lynn Abbey

Jumping, Genre Is, Editors

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In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems

Timothy Geithner

Risk, May, Today

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