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• I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

  Hans Kung

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• Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

  Colin MacInnes

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• How to respect tradition and to innovate at the same time? What a difficult challenge!

  I. M. Pei

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• The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.

  Sharad Pawar

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• There’s an academic tradition called the ‘Last Lecture.’ Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there’s an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn’t hypothetical.

  Randy Pausch

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• There isn’t, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

  Khaled Hosseini

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• There’s a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest – like the Steinbeckian social novel.

  John Hodgman

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• I think the tradition of well-written history hasn’t been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

  Adam Hochschild

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• The tree remains, but not so the hand that put it.

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• Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting.

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• When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

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• The tradition of baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is ‘Do anything you can get away with’.

  Heywood Campbell Broun Jr.

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  When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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  Teaching is not a lost art. But the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  Jacques Martin Barzun

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• Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

  Chaske Spencer

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• Any Democratic statement of core beliefs about the importance of families must include all our families, gay and straight. Our party has a long tradition of leading the charge on important questions of justice.

  Jeanne Shaheen

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• Culture is the bed-rock, the final wall, against which one leans one’s back in a g-d-forsaken chaos.

  John Cowper Powys

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• History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.

  Henry Ford

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• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• But you say you are conservative – eminently conservative – while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

  George Haven Putnam

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