We can't attribute a long history of democratic traditions to Japan, either, but today Japan boasts a fully-fledged democracy in which governments… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The longer a person has been dead the greater is the tradition ... If Buddha is alive you can barely tolerate him.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
I do notice that my songs fit all over the map, even in terms of the colloquialisms in them. The songs come… — Mirah Copy Share Image
“I have never been able to understand where people got the idea that democracy was in some way opposed to tradition. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for… — Arnold Gesell Copy Share Image
Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest,… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Now more than ever the world has to come together to make changes. Just because certain cultures have had long-standing traditions does… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that any religion has been revealed to Man by God. Because a revealed religion would be perfect but no… — Robert Blatchford Copy Share Image
Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We're in a very, very profound crisis. It's so obvious that no one in the power structure, either the corporate power structure… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Moses led his people through the wilderness and he wasn't permitted to enter the Promised Land. Jesus was crucified. Mohammad founded a… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Britain cannot afford to cut itself off from what is going on in the world, we are too interconnected with what is… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
“It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Don't worry about wearing the sign; be the sign. You don't have to wear a sandwich board saying, "I am religious and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
When you dig down, people are pretty progressive, by and large. I guess, I've said it many times - that a lot… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians,… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
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It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
“Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn't get enough of them… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to… — Alfred Molina Copy Share Image
“So,” he throttled shift knob into fifth gear half a block from a stop sign, “you’re from Great Britain.” “Yes. England. The… — Kevin Cole Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be part of that tradition of French cinema that wasn't really watched by the people of my age.… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
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