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We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past… — Julius Nyerere
It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh… — Tom Regan
A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds. — Clive James
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may… — Sinclair Lewis
And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes… — Jacky Ickx
What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of Creation versus scarcity… — Rebecca Adamson
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker. — Charles de Lint
Women who have had more opportunity to develop their own strengths and talents, or who are quite satisfied and content in a traditional role, unfortunately… — Hazel Hawke
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have… — Ian Hamilton Finlay
Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a… — Unknown Author
I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage. But… — Barack Obama
I repeat to you-my own view is, is that if a State-if people decide to-what they do in the privacy of their house, consenting adults… — George W. Bush
Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves… — Gautama Buddha
Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you… — Gautama Buddha
Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means… — Unknown Author
The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. The… — B. H. Liddell Hart
If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are… — Zoe Weil
As far as digital technology has come, there's still one thing that digital cameras won't do: give you perfect color every time. In fact, if… — Scott Kelby
A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically… — Timothy Keller
Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the one battle we feminists won fair and square was to convince at least those left of centre that… — Julie Bindel
The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul,… — Adam Kirsch
Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional… — Joan Konner
To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism. — Peter Calthorpe
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty. — Jacqueline Novogratz
Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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