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 Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
  Hermann Hesse

 I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we mak
  Henry Ford

 It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the worse. It's silly.
  Barbra Streisand

 People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have a tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity, that there is a tradition of idiocy, incompetence and crudity

 Spiritual and religious traditions, when shaped by the feminine principle, affirm the cyclical phrases of our lives and the wisdom each phase brings, the sacredness of our bodies and the body of the Earth

 The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

 There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

 To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form
  Alfred Jarry

 To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form
  Alfred Jarry

 Tradition is a guide and not a jailer
  William Somerset Maugham

 Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking

 Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
  Woody Allen

 Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
  Woody Allen

 Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
  Jose Bergamin


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