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by Gilbert K. Chesterton    ( comments )

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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.

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by Joseph Addison    ( comments )

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Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

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by Thomas Carlyle    ( comments )

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What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when more

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.

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by Johnny Depp    ( comments )

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I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking more

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

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by Gayl Jones    ( comments )

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When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. more

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.

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by Lewis Mumford    ( comments )

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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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by Ellen Goodman    ( comments )

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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 more

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.

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by Allan Bloom    ( comments )

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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

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by W. Somerset Maugham    ( comments )

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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

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by G. K. Chesterton    ( comments )

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Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all more

Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

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