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Ellen Goodman
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.
G. K. Chesterton
Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
Gayl Jones
When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.
Johnny Depp
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
Joseph Addison
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
Kate Chopin
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
Lewis Mumford
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Thomas Carlyle
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.
 
 
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