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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.
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.
You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.
Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.
Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.
More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.
Even though there's a lot of horror from Asia in the American cinematic tradition, I hadn't seen Asians at the center of it.
The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.
The attacking philosophy is in the walls of Man United. That's tradition; that's history. That's how we play and want to play.
There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.
When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.
It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.
Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.
I want to make things of quality. I'm a big believer in handmade, tactile, crafted pieces. I want to keep that tradition alive.
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.
I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."
I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.
The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.