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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.
Mickey Mouse to me means safety, comfort and tradition. A general wash of happiness.
By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.
I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.
Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.
One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.
When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language.
As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.
Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.
Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.
I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me.
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.
Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.
We have a strong tradition in our country of senior leaders being apolitical, nonpartisan.
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.
The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.
It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.
The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.
Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.
Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.
So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms.
With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.
One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!
Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.
I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.
We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.
As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.
There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.