Best Traditional Wisdom
996 Traditional quotes by 843 unique authors
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The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion - very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
— Bertha Knight Landes
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My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a…
— Carl Sagan
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New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters
— Busta Rhymes
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There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's the same once you start putting limits on…
— Louie Gohmert
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Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man,…
— Thomas Sowell
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Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of…
— Paul Watzlawick
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This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl…
— William Appleman Williams
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It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It’s…
— Mary Beard
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You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
— John Bradshaw
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Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.
— Peter Drucker
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It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and…
— Stephen Harper
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It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad…
— Stephen Harper
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The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and…
— Stephen Harper
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I'm not a traditional sonero, at least not in the way they want me to be, I'm an interpreter, and I reach people in a…
— Marc Anthony
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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the…
— Randy Travis
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Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had…
— Noel Gallagher
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I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither…
— Lynn Abbey
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In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional…
— Timothy Geithner
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The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.…
— Robert Graves
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As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art…
— Gavin Newsom
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
— L'Wren Scott
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I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people…
— Carol Moseley Braun
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The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign…
— Carol Moseley Braun
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