Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I've always thought New Year's Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we're famous for in our… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas.… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
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Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is one which destroys the entire state to the roots and exterminates all… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we… — John Green Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Everybody has their own way of remembering and every culture has their traditions. When you compare the similarities and differences to other… — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets… — Origen Copy Share Image
I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Those who like myself, consider themselves to be followers of Buddha, should practice as much as we can. To followers of other… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music -- particularly American music -- that… — John Renbourn Copy Share Image
The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Just as the pioneers made the desert blossom as a rose, so too our lives and families will blossom if we follow… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
“The question that we need to address is this: What relevance do these ancient traditions have to the experience of a modern… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
The clothing is moving, the external version is moving. Whether the internal version is moving or not it is a different matter.… — Robert Svoboda Copy Share Image
There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
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![“[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.” quote by Karl Mannheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7d/karl-mannheim-40736_belief_w-hen-the-empirical-investigator-glories_2795607.png)
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![“The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is one which destroys the entire state to the roots and exterminates all the state traditions, institutions and classes…. Day and night [the revolutionary] must have but one thought, one aim – merciless destruction…for him morality is everything…” quote by Sergey Nechayev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a5/sergey-nechayev-72206_aim_the-only-form-of-revolution-beneficial-t_1931844.jpg)
![“The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit” quote by Origen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/origen-12126_apostles_the-church-received-from-the-apostles-th_199967.jpg)
![“The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which it grew, which means taking it back to Homer and beyond, it demands the written word - poetry and prose. [Bob] Dylan is no slouch at the written word, both in its…” quote by David Bennun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44f/david-bennun-25818_bob_the-question-now-becomes-about-defining_1554900.jpg)
