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

  I. M. Pei

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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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• 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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• 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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• People who grow up without a sense of how yesterday has effected today are unlikely to have a strong sense of how today affects tomorrow. It is only when we become conscious of the flow of time that the consequences of action…. become a consideration. It is only when we  have perspective on our lives that motives besides immediate gratification can come into play.

  Lynne Ann Vincent Cheney

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

  Cate Blanchett

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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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• When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.

  Chinua Achebe

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