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What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.
To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.
I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.
Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.
Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.
All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself.
Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.
One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.
A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.
We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.
The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.
I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.
I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.
Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.
When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it.
In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question.
I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.
Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.
I've studied my culture deeply and I'm very aware of my tradition.
All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.
Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.
Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.
If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.
Holiday traditions in my family are really it's all about the kids.
Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.
It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair.
Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.
There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.
Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.
India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.
In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars.
There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.
If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.
The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.
There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.