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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of. -- Ellen Goodman
Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents. -- Philip Glass
Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles. -- Lars Svendsen
Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them. -- Franz Marc
There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things. -- Oliver D. Crisp
Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter. -- Norman Ornstein
Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going. -- N. T. Wright
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of. -- Ellen Goodman
Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition. -- Paul Feyerabend
Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life. -- Joyce Meyer
Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend were all living in different worlds because were on different continents. -- Philip Glass
Traditions cannot themselves, simply with their own powers, do what needs to be done. These earlier experiences and accomplishments were dealing with other issues, providing guidance for different worlds than the world of the early twenty-first century. -- Thomas Berry
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless. -- Joseph Addison
I like traditions, and the national anthem is important. -- Kate Mara
Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children. -- Ezra Taft Benson
We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected. -- Kathy Freston
There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. -- Vladimir Putin
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you. -- Constantin Stanislavski
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. -- Dalai Lama
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. -- Andy Warhol
Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on fasting is part of many religious traditions and holidays. -- Marcus Samuelsson
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. -- Jerry Costello
Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. -- Rick Santorum
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions. -- James Welch
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life. -- Tariq Ramadan
We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future. -- Barbara Jordan
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world. -- Ban Ki-moon
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people. -- Chief Seattle
Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most. -- Roman Coppola
The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. -- Ai Weiwei
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music. -- Yo-Yo Ma
It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul. -- Caroline Kennedy
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man. -- Joyce Meyer
What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him. -- Joyce Meyer
I make our family traditions a priority. -- Martina McBride
I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones. -- Orlando Bloom
I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose. -- James Hillman
We cannot trust our own minds, traditions and beliefs. -- Bryant McGill
The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions. -- Martin Lindstrom
Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith. -- Franz Liszt
We're going to have to change our traditions, our history -- Michelle Obama
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive -- George Santayana
Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions. -- Robert Ardrey
Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies. -- Hillary Clinton
All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself. -- Doug Stanhope
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. -- Vanessa Mae
Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb. -- Josh McDowell
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. -- Mark Twain
All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness. -- George Saunders
Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding. -- David Novak
Holiday traditions in my family are really it's all about the kids. -- Kelly Rowland
Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art. -- Eleanora Duse
Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. -- Karen Armstrong
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions, -- Staffan de Mistura
The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies. -- Walter Weyl
Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging. -- Diane Greene
The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living. -- Karl Marx
traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy. -- Edith Wharton
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. -- Winston Churchill
I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go. -- Theodore Bikel
If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions. -- Maude Adams
If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions. -- Maude Adams
There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on. -- Lorna Luft
The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service. -- Stewart Udall
My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada. -- Preston Manning
Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult. -- Katharine McPhee
In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions. -- Robert Moss
One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature. -- Greg Graffin
I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions. -- Barack Obama
Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century. -- C.P. Snow
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions. -- Cosima Spender
Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children. -- Erwin McManus
By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations. -- David First
[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest. -- Elie Wiesel
American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders. -- Barack Obama
Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision. -- Larry Graham
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules. -- Jack Nicklaus
The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions. -- Amit Goswami
All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are. -- David Christian
The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods. -- Georgina Chapman
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. -- Maya Lin
All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth. -- David Fontana
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories. -- Miller Williams
Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important. -- Donald L. Hallstrom
What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life. -- Robert Casey
I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions. -- Brandon Bays
I have great respect for Catholic traditions; my family is Catholic, and it's part of my life. -- Juanes
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh. -- Hanoi Hannah
The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions. -- Deepak Chopra
Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions. -- Barack Obama
Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living. -- Rick Smolan
The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive. -- Walter Rauschenbusch
Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam. -- Stephen Kinzer
Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. -- Molly Ivins
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. -- Deepak Chopra
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. -- Thomas Carlyle
If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions. -- Martin E. Marty
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild. -- Ben Okri
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family. -- Jesse Helms
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs -- Mikhail Gorbachev
If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst. -- Anne Waldman
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world. -- Pamela Love
Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions. -- John P. Kotter
Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
We should never lose sight of the very close link between individual giving and the formation of philanthropic traditions. -- Robert L. Payton
It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Spain has some of the richest culinary traditions and truly appreciates food that is simply prepared with top-notch ingredients. -- Emeril Lagasse
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions. -- Ronald Reagan
We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten. -- Meir Soloveichik

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