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“Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of the trickster, and the trickster was a clown, a humorous fellow. His task was to trick the gods, to humor the gods into laughing, so that there was access to the divine - because laughter is a moment when we are completely ourselves.”

Moments Social Laughing Divine Laughter Humorous Tradition Tasks Fellows Access Tricks Primitive Clown Tricksters

Author:George Carlin

“Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.”

Should Country Strong Interest Tradition Should Have Other Countries Interest In Others

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“The clothing is moving, the external version is moving. Whether the internal version is moving or not it is a different matter. It is good to practice Ayurveda, it is good to worship the Gods and Goddesses, it is good to do bhajans. Of course, depending on what your own personal development is, that will determine how, in what way and how well you will be able to connect to that tradition and bring it to life inside yourself.”

“Besides, everywhere, life is getting longer, marriages fall apart, divorce is a reality that happens even where the law doesn't sanction it. It remains the tradition that women are trusted to take care of the children.”

Children Reality Happens Care Law Life Is Fall Tradition Remains Divorce Take Care Trusted Falling Apart Sanctions

Author:Dacia Maraini

“There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.”

Kind Training Sitting Tradition Buddhist Session Posture Lotuses

Author:Anne Waldman

“As players of instruments, it is our duty to reach out and give light to those in the dark in whatever way that we can. All my actions are a fulfilment of all the African music genres - I'm only trying to maintain the culture and the tradition. I am a musician.”

Way Giving Trying Light Action Culture Dark Player Duty Musician Tradition Instruments Genre Reach Out Fulfilment African Music

Author:Sizzla

“My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal equality.”

Made Race Theory Projects Intellectual Tradition Critical Focused Reform Critique

Author:Dean Spade

“Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the conditions and problems that most concern me - anti-colonial theories, Foucault, critical disability studies, prison studies and the like are rarely seen in standard US Law School curricula, where students are still fighting on many campuses to get a single class on race or poverty offered - I developed most of my thinking about these topics through activist reading groups and collaborative writing projects with other activist scholars.”

“he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.”

Teacher Politician Tradition Doctors Patient Voters Powerlessness Passivity Muster Dumbbells

Author:Andrew Saul

“Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.”

“Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous people, populations labeled physically or mentally unfit, black people, migrants, women, prisoners - have always produced robust critiques of the what Dylan Rodriguez calls "white bourgeois freedom."”

People Black White Development Citizens Intellectual Tradition Population Prisoner Black People Dylan Indigenous Emerging Critique Bourgeois Robust Migrants Indigenous People

Author:Dean Spade

“I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.”

Thinking Two Helping Used Language Focus Authority Approach Tradition Relation Islam Helpful Temporality

Author:Talal Asad

“I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a purely secular world in which we already know how things stand for individual subjects as well as for societies.”

Thinking Knows World Way Needs Wells Individual Know How Cutting Subjects Tradition Asking Assumption Islamic Secular Asking Questions

Author:Talal Asad

“Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.”

Men Feels Picks Tradition Ancestor Thread Lacking

Author:Talal Asad

“Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what one's own tradition is, what one belongs to and what gives valid shape to one's life.”

Giving Self Shapes Tradition Aspiration Acquire

Author:Talal Asad

“Doing meditation you may need to experiment to discover what kinds of thoughts are best for your own unique interests and situation. For you it might be a repetitive "mantra," or simply an open state of watching your breath, like in the Buddhist tradition.”

Needs Kind May States Might Interest Situation Meditation Unique Tradition Breaths Experiments Buddhist Mantras Repetitive Doing Me

Author:Tim McCarthy

“There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.”

Long Country Political Politics Nations Term Citizens Tradition Farms Honorable Term Limits

Book:Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Source: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

“Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.”

Children Art Values Creativity Creative Hero Tradition Innovation Our Children Senior Veteran Creative Art Our Veterans Oklahomans

Author:Brad Henry

“Each time, I try to find a family of interesting faces. I follow the tradition of films from the 40s - at this time, there were so many interesting faces in France. I often work with the same because there are not thousands and thousands in France. I'm looking for interesting faces and characters actors, and it's not for everybody.”

Trying Character Film Faces Actors Interesting Tradition France Character Actors

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“Ever since I started acting, I've always spoken to our people about identity. I've spoken to kids, telling them: "Where do I get my strength to push through the barriers to get me where I'm at today? It's my culture and my traditions, you know?”

People Knows Kids Today Culture Acting Identity Tradition Barriers

Author:Adam Beach

“To implement a new sport aside your tradition takes time. You definitely need a strategy for the entire country. You need highly qualified coaches for all regions that work with the same concept.”

Needs Country Sports Concepts Tradition Strategy Coaches Regions Take Time Qualified

Author:Berti Vogts

“Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions about what religion is are so influenced by Protestantism - either real Protestantism or the secularized Protestantism that dominates our culture - and its assumption that beliefs are the most important thing.”

Important Real Facts Culture Belief Huge Buddhism Tradition Importance Important Things Enormous Assumption Hinduism Preconceptions Confucianism Protestantism

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Artist Song Grew Grew Up Tradition Pops Melody 80s Format

Author:Robyn

“I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake City, Utah, we were taught - and we are still led to believe - that the most important value is obedience. But that obedience in the name of religion or patriotism ultimately takes our souls. So I think it's this larger issue of what is acceptable and what is not; where do we maintain obedience and law and where do we engage in civil disobedience - where we can cross the line physically and metaphorically and say, "No, this is no longer appropriate behavior."”

“A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.”

Men Years Results Food Thousand Tradition One Man Thousand Years Soup Refined

Book:Death Comes for the Archbishop

Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop

“It's in that tradition that we're here today, and we look to soup because there's no force on the globe that brings people together on a daily basis with the same consistency and manner than the cultivation, preparation and eating of food. Food affords us the opportunity to touch everyone in our community, to address the needs of all groups - food is the intersection of the most pressing issues of our time.”

People Needs Looks Today Together Opportunity Force Community Issues Groups Eating Tradition Bases Preparation Our Time Addresses Globes Consistency Soup Our Community Cultivation Intersections

Author:Sam Kass

“Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.”

Past Healing Tradition Vitality Past Life

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Over an extended period of time, if a culture does not entail any traditions...if there are no values or if there is no awareness or social consciousness...a heritage tradition can never be developed.”

Ifs Doe Values Culture Social Consciousness Awareness Periods Tradition India Heritage Tourism Social Consciousness

Author:Narendra Modi

“We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.”

Two Motivation Universe Tradition Treats India Our Family Manifestation Contradiction Globalisation

Author:Narendra Modi

“Domains like Trade, Technology, Tourism, Talent and Tradition have the power to redefine existing paradigms.”

Motivation Technology Talent Tradition India Trade Domain Paradigm Tourism

Author:Narendra Modi

“I have a tradition of working with actors, over and over again. I've worked with Jason Bateman, over and over again. You get to know an actor, and you get a certain trust and a comfort, and you become really good friends, and you feel like you've got a short-hand.”

Knows Feels Hands Certain Actors Like You Comfort Tradition Good Friend Jason Really Good Friends

Author:Peter Berg

“Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.”

Kind Long Term Acting Careers Tradition Theater Long Term Progressive

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.”

Soul Science Spirit Religion Four Tradition Letters Scientist Four Letter Words

Author:Candace Pert

“The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."”

Has Beens Tradition Baseball Get Away Chivalry

Author:Heywood Broun

“You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.”

People Thinking Knows Heart Hard Enough God Religious Tradition Hard Times Hardship Regulation

Author:Edward de Bono

“What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.”

Humanity Tradition Customs Reconcile

Book:The Beauties of Locke, Consisting of Selections from His Philosophical, Moral, and Theological Works

Source: The Beauties of Locke, Consisting of Selections from His Philosophical, Moral, and Theological Works

“By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.”

“If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.”

Ifs May Doe Has Beens Made War Christian Cases Violence Serious Negative Tradition Claims Prepared Exception Affirmation Justified Presumption Being Equal Unjustified

Author:John Howard

“There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.”

World Pieces Tradition Convince Stubborn Corpses Being Stubborn

Author:Alexander Herzen

“An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.”

Tradition Logic Obsolete

Author:Ed Parker

“Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.”

Trying Mind Ideas Approach Tradition Progressive New Ideas Receptive New Approach

Book:The Magic Of Thinking Big

Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big

“As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.”

Members Tradition My Family Congress

Author:Mark Kennedy

“My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.”

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.”

People Matter Would Be Spiritual Culture Spirituality Study Creation Possibility Shapes Tradition Institutions Paradigm New Possibilities

Author:Matthew Fox

“The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.”

Would Be Law Liberty Study Rights Kings Tradition Parliament Englishmen Secured

Author:John Adams

“They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.”

Art Science Education Practice Tradition Method Physicians Distinguished Incline Generalities

Author:Francis Bacon

“My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.”

Giving Age Form Imagination Intellectual Tradition Function Embrace Depth Musical Visuals Old Traditions

Book:A Man of Our Time: Michael Tippett

Source: A Man of Our Time: Michael Tippett

“Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.”

Persons Said Book Stories Names Records Evidence Concern Tradition Observation Passages Fragments Monument Diligence Antiquity Industrious Remnants Deluge

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

“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.”

Hard America Community Virtue Tradition Accepted Traditional Traditional Family

Author:James H. Douglas

“The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.”

Important Character Novel Crime Emotional Circumstances Offers Aspect Tradition Function Atmosphere Personal Life Detectives Countryside Tapestry Tapestry Of Life English Countryside

Author:Elizabeth George

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