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• Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

  Winston Churchill

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• Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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• There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

  Richard Rogers

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• I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

  Bruce Springsteen

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• But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn’t work in contemporary storytelling because we don’t live in that world anymore.

  Brian De Palma

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• I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

  Boozoo Chavis

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• I don’t really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

  Fred Melamed

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• I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let’s make it the orthodontist.

  Frankie Muniz

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• We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

  Frank Woolley

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• The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

  Bill Bradley

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• There’s not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

  Cate Blanchett

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• That’s why we’re doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don’t have anything against it (Halloween), but it’s not our tradition.

  Fernando Flores

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• We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors – it is truly an Iowa value.

  Tom Vilsack

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• Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

  Cyril Falls

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• It’s kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of – shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It’s kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.

  Gary Carter

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• The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English – the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

  Camille Paglia

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• It is tradition in Ireland that you’re given money for your first communion.

  Roma Downey

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• There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

  Ted Rall

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• The territorial state is such an ancient form of society – here in Europe it dates back thousands of years – that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

  Christian Lous Lange

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• The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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