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“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”

“In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.”

Men Doe Might Lying Example Approach Advantage Assuming Edges Absence Stealing Traditional Ice Witness Village Hunting Cheat Alaska Murphy Inuit

Author:Martha Stout

“Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.”

Pain Pleasure Powerful Fit Bills Traditional Contrast Minors Magician Accountants Really Powerful

Book:Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)

Source: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)

“I'm kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.”

Kind I Can Stuff Careers Pops Traditional Get Away

Author:Luke Bryan

“She had told him that she loved him. He had known that, but hearing it in the traditional phrase had affected him in new and blinding ways. Ways that made him believe that he could do anything. Anything she needed or wanted him to do. Because her loving him meant so much more than him loving her.”

Way Believe Made Wanted Known Needed Hearing Traditional Phrases Affected Loving Him

Author:Jacquelyn Frank

“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.”

Should Years Mean Has Beens Reason Courses Example Tradition Gold Stealing Ships Traditional No Reason Piracy

Author:Daniel Handler

“We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.”

Ifs Sometimes Matter Whole Body Christian Easy Difficult Religious Views Modern Intellectual Traditional Religious Faith Holistic Aberration Auden

Author:Kathleen Norris

“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”

Tradition Logic Harder Traditional Justify Customs Inertia Sawyer

Author:Mark Twain

“I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.”

Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

“Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.”

Source: Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati

“The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way.”

“There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.”

Facts Helping Social Traditional Reform Irony Progressive Status Quo Political Correctness Prescriptions Politically Correct Dialect Euphemism Substitution Orwellian Social Equality

Author:David Foster Wallace

“There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a princess in a fairy tale, waiting at the top of her tower for someone to ride up and rescue her. Not that traditional princess behavior was like Isabelle at all. Isabelle with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“To Serve and Protect..."- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets”

Protect Protection Traditional Motto Racket

Book:M.Y.T.H. Inc. in action

Source: M.Y.T.H. Inc. in action

“Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love,and with love,there are no rules some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior,others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on relationships but this is all folly.The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.”

“Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were - a regimented church you never attended, traditional virtues you never practiced, legalistic obedience you never honored, and a sterile orthodoxy you never accepted. The old era is done. The decisive inbreak of God has happened.”

Done Jesus Church Virtue Happened Letting Go Accepted Traditional Burning Eras Obedience Rome Honored Changing Your Life Good Day Orthodoxy Fiddle

Author:Brennan Manning

“The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that "to work is to pray." (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)”

Way Humans Two Ideas Culture Justice Principles Practice Economy Praying Locals Traditional Reverence Vocation Inseparable Sanctity

Author:Wendell Berry

“Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the rest of my life, but I certainly don't want to be a housewife right now. And I really don't want to be married to someone who gives me ultimatums. And maybe Joe needs to examine what he wants from a wife. He was raised in a traditional Italian household with a stay-at-home mother and domineering father. If he wants a wife who will fit into that mold, I'm not for him. I might be a stay-at-home mother someday, but I'll always be trying to fly off the garage roof. That's just who I am.”

“Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.”

Said Remember Values Language Citizens Concerned Traditional Spokes Pins Remember You Remembers You Traditional Values

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind.”

Mind Spiritual Process Practice Discipline Training Traditional Significance Cleaning Purifying Novices

Book:Geisha Of Gion: The True Story Of Japan's Foremost Geisha

Source: Geisha Of Gion: The True Story Of Japan's Foremost Geisha

“There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.”

People Country Artist Church Style Traditional Progressive Eric Luke Brad Bryan Josh Turner Miranda Paisley

Author:Jason Aldean

“[My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't make my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My mom did all of those things, and nobody ever told her when she did them that it made her a good mother.”

Source: Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son

“Listen," I began, "this is an established,traditional form that-" "Traditional nothing.Where are your clothes?" "Clothes?" I said weakly. "I don't normally bother with them in this guise." "Well,you could put on a pair of shorts,at least.Your not decent." "I'm not sure they'd go with the wings..." The demon frowend,and blinked."Hold on,enough of this." "Lenderhosen would. They'd compliment the leather.”

Wells Said Enough Form Clothes Wings Traditional Bother Not Sure Demon Decent Pairs Compliment Leather Shorts Guise

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“but it wasn't just about my feelings. The more I got to know you, the more I was certain that you'd do whatever it took to provide for your family. That was important to me. You have to understand that back then, a lot of people our age wanted to change the world. Even though it's a noble idea, I knew I wanted something more traditional. I wanted a family like my parents had, and I wanted to concentrate on my little corner of the world. I wanted someone who wanted to marry a wife and a mother, and someone who would respect my choice.”

People Knows World Littles Important Ideas Feelings Age Wanted Mother Certain Choices Parent Wife Corners Noble Traditional Changing The World Corners Of The World Wanted Someone

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.”

“Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.”

Trying Years Loss Modern Balance Activity Consequence Aspect Investment Financial Scales Traditional Gambling Massive Sheets Banking Lending Retail Casinos Balance Sheets Investment Banking

Author:Vince Cable

“A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, national news agencies requesting interviews sometimes asked if they could film a tribal dance or if I would wear traditional tribal clothing for the interview. I doubt they asked the president of the United States to dress like a pilgrim for an interview.”

Source: Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women

“There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves with the limited space any more: instead of keeping within the limits of a temperate style of thinking, and taking as inviolable truth what furnishes comfort and tranquility to thousands, they overlap all bounds of the traditional and run wild with their imprudent criticism and untamed mania for doubt, these extravagating vagabonds.”

Thinking Seems Running Father Space Doubt Style Willing Comfort Limits Intellectual Criticism Bounds Traditional Tranquility Dwelling Mania Hereditary Untamed Vagabonds Dwelling Place

Book:The Ego and Its Own

Source: The Ego and Its Own

“I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.”

Believe I Believe I Believe In Defense Traditional Traditional Marriage

Author:Herman Cain

“There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.”

People Men Way Feels Years Made Home Today Past Building Thousand Traditional Temples Village Thousand Years Timeless Tents

Author:Christopher Alexander

“You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face—who will love them now?”

Knows Should Wells Faces Advice Revenge Traditional Instance Disagree Acid Live Well Best Revenge

Book:Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)

“The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.”

Should Believe Values Religious Issues Media Concern Letters Traditional Protest Overwhelming Chuck Family Values Displeasure

Author:Tony Campolo

“On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls’ sports were to blame. Then they cut to a commercial featuring a sexy college coed vacuuming her dorm room in her underwear.”

Ifs Hands Values Girl Sports Rooms Talking Cutting College Tvs Blame Sexy Traditional Feminine Underwear Dorms Talking Heads Dorm Rooms Coed

Author:Libba Bray

“Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.”

Humans Darkness Reader Structure Dear Traditional Reign Spectacular Obsolete Human Power

Book:Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity

Source: Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity

“The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.”

Persons Ideas Hard Might Forever Crazy Traditional Being True Amen Being Crazy Crazy Person Working So Hard

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.”

Ifs Should Would Be Law Mother Asks Answers Watches Daughter Performances Function Traditional Opposition Comment Household In-laws Mother In Law Daughter In Law

Book:A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988

Source: A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988

“Alexander and I sat together on a backyard swing. "This is like a dream come true," Alexander said as we gently swung back and forth. "We can finally just focus on us now. Continue the traditional 'Boy meets girl, girl falls for boy, boy turns out to be a vampire' story.”

Said Stories Dream Together Turns Fall Girl Boys Focus Traditional Vampire Sat Swings Dreams Come True Back And Forth Backyards Boy Meets Girl

Author:Ellen Schreiber

“The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.”

Stills Hard Feelings Struggle Atheism Creatures Mass Weight Slave Atheist Traditional Chains Thrown Spheres Grudge Opium

Author:Albert Einstein

“I've never been this wet in my life, " said Kira. "Even immersed in a bathtub I swear I was dryer than I am now. " "Look on the bright side, " said Marcus. Kira waited. "This is the point at which you would traditionally suggest a bright side. " "I've never been a real traditional guy," said Marcus. "Besides, I'm not saying I know a bright side, I just think this would be a great time to look at one.”

Thinking Knows Looks Said Real Would Be Guy Sides Traditional Wet Swear Great Times Bright Side Bathtubs Dryers Kira

Book:Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)

Source: Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)

“[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.”

Cities Vision Technology Virtue Events Example Materials Kings Victory Saint Traditional Celebrate Holiday Cigarette Illumination Reserved Gin Toothpaste Rare Events

Book:Heaven and hell

Source: Heaven and hell

“The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still work best: the lava flows, the minefields full of exploding surprises, burning at the stake, running naked through cactus patches... You name it, we've got it here - Nico di Angelo”

Trying Stills Ideas Running Names Dad Flow Surprise Punishment Naked Traditional Burning Stakes Patches Hades Exploding Nico Di Angelo Lava Cactus Minefields Burning At The Stake

Author:Rick Riordan

“I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.”

People Mean Stories Lying Interesting Sacred Myth Traditional Worldview

Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“Mrs. Rimas cried at the mention of the wafer and the traditional Christmas blessing. "God grant that we are all together again next year.”

Years Together Next Blessing Traditional Grants Cried Next Year Together Again

Author:Ruta Sepetys

“The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color amongst the sea of traditional black. Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy.”

Light Black Space Numbers Sea Color Quiet Despair Rain Traditional Despite Realms Thoughtful Melancholy Funeral Handkerchiefs Flailing

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.”

Kind Has Beens Self Problem Individual Realizing Forget Liberty Gains Increase Traditional Preserves Have Faith Qualitative

Book:Fascism, Power, and Individual Rights: Escape from Freedom, To Have or To Be?, and The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

Source: Fascism, Power, and Individual Rights: Escape from Freedom, To Have or To Be?, and The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

“In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.”

World Humans Art Soul Human Beings Effects Fine Traditional Islamic Minors Hierarchy

Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion." "Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?" Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here." "How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious. "Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing." “How's that a duel?” "He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about." Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose.”

Ifs Wells Said Stills Forget Rocks Fashion Like You Drink Beats Singing Argument Traditional Drunk Curious Winner Dawn Insult Plus Laughed Knives Offended Involving Barbarians Spears

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.”

School Black Policy College Grew Higher Historical University Traditional Welcome African American Segregation Colleges And Universities Higher Learning

Author:Michael N. Castle

“In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)”

Children Stills States Values Hate Fighting Teach Dad Unions Folks Ignorant Traditional Hated Dislike Grandparent Bans Family Values Traditional Family

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“I hate any match that isn't a traditional Tag Team Match or a traditional Singles Match, because anything can happen. It's truly one of those deals where it's all about being in the right place at the right time.”

Happens Hate Deals Team I Hate Traditional Right Time Right Place Tag Singles Anything Can Happen

Author:John Cena

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