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The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition.
There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.
The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.
By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.
We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.
If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.
We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.
I do love the weird, and I realize that I write much in that tradition, so I'm happy to be counted in among some of my favorite authors.
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
I was raised in a Baptist tradition, but then I went to an Episcopalian high school, and they were very accepting of people of all faiths.
Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.
In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.
One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
The tradition of Chicago price theory is a good one, and it is a low-tech methodology that tries to apply simple economic theory to the world.
Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.
You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.
letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.
To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.
I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.
We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.
I was a bullfighter. I'd like to see the tradition continue. I'm sorry that Catalonia is robbing itself of a tradition that belongs in Catalonia.
Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
For President Donald Trump, questions about transparency start with his taxes, and why he's breaking with tradition and not releasing his returns.
I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.