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Letter "T" » tradition
«Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.»
«At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.»
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
crossroad, crossroads, tradition
«A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Communication,
Community,
World
| Keywords:
extensive, facilities, globe, ideals, scattered, software, tradition
«As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.»
«Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.»
«Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Age,
Beauty,
Cruelty,
Culture,
Custom,
Education,
Strength,
Traditions,
Weakness
| Keywords:
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«Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live...»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
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«A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.»
«A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
hour, indeed, nation, nations, peril, strengthened, that nation, The Perils of, tradition, weakening
«Don't talk to me about Naval tradition! It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
lash, lashed, lashes, lashing, rum, sodomy, talk to me, tradition
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