Traditional Quotes - Page 7

• All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.

  Barbara Myerhoff

  Realization, May, Sacred

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• Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Running, Children, School

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• All people here have political rights, social rights, rights to employment, and no one should face discrimination, but our strategic choice is for traditional families, healthy families and a healthy nation. One does not exclude the other and does not hinder the other. I think this is a balanced approach and is entirely the right approach.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Rights, People

  "Human Rights Watch criticizes Russia, says it fails to protect LGBT people" by Susannah Cullinane, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2014.

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• The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Men, Self

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.142, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

  Jon Meacham

  Religious, Prayer, School

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• When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement of the world-machine established in our behalf by the best and most systematic builder of all, existed among the philosophers who had studied so exactly in other respects the minutest details in regard to the sphere.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Long, Details, Machines

  "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Preface Letter to Pope Paul III)". Book by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543.

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• There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection against the federalist superstate.

  Gisela Stuart

  Views, Protection, Danger

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• I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and a a play with our expectations of that.

  Rick Alverson

  Thinking, Play, Expectations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Luxury is obviously the direction that interests me the most, but there is a lot of confusion between luxury and exhibitionism. For me, the concept of luxury is more traditional, more exclusive, more sophisticated than luxury for the masses.

  Giorgio Armani

  Luxury, Confusion, Exhibitionism

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Book, Hero, Fiction

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• The Soviet Union attempted to export communism to the entire world. We know what came of that. Now the West is trying to export democracy, including to regions where there is no traditional foundation for it. That cannot end well.

  Vladimir Yakunin

  Trying, Democracy, Unions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

  John Kasich

  Believe, Old Fashioned, Persons

  John Kasich at the Republican presidential primary debate hosted by Fox News in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been. I remember fragments of my dream, and I try to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dream, Preparation, Trying

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas". collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Allies, Germany, Looks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Thank god now for social media and just e-commerce. Now designers have a direct pipeline to their customer and access to her like they never had before, like they never could before. Clothes can happen now that never would have had a chance in the traditional chain of command of the way things worked.

  Byron Lars

  Media, Clothes, Thank God

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• I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games. In a more traditional nerd sense, I just read lots of books and I enjoyed school.

  Emily Browning

  Real, Book, School

  Source: collider.com

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• Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it's actually the conflation of religion and politics - every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Religious, Political, Covering

  "The Interview: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on reforming Islam". Interview with Brian Bethune, www.macleans.ca. April 13, 2015.

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• The military tends to be a traditional place. Traditional culture, traditional men are often attracted to serving in the military.

  Tanya Biank

  Military, Men, Culture

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

  Vaclav Havel

  Civilization, People, Democracy

  Vaclav Havel, John Keane (2016). “The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe”, p.105, Routledge

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• All of my experience of studying religion, studying spirituality, studying natural healing, traditional medicine, has kind of enriched my vision of the world. Not only seeing reality as this moment, but as a culmination of all of the history behind us, and all of the fruit that hopefully we will be able to grow from the seeds that we are trying to plant, of goodness and peace and beauty and equality.

  Assata Shakur

  Healing, Reality, Medicine

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• I'm a bit traditional in the way that I think that a woman draws her energy from the house. Food is a really nice way of expressing that energy and love, and doing something with care and putting time into it and nourishing your family.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Nice, Thinking, House

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to Beethoven and have a more classical, traditional approach. Why not be able to do that with film performance?

  Nicolas Cage

  Art, Avant Garde, Why Not

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• The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.

  Howard Zinn

  Men, Law, Decision

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• Women most certainly carry a more sympathetic heart in the traditional, classic sense the mother archetype. They have been given the role to carry the heart energy of the human community, whereas men carry the survival energy.

  Caroline Myss

  Mother, Heart, Men

  Source: www.shareguide.com

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• I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.

  Maurice Sendak

  Fighting, People, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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