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tradition
«Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking»
Author: Grace McGarvie
| About:
Thinking,
Traditions
| Keywords:
acting, an explanation, explanation, tradition, without thinking
«Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.»
Author: Harold Macmillan
| Keywords:
tradition
«The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.»
Author: Michael Armstrong
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
accountability, ancient, ancient Romans, arch, arched, assumed, capstone, constructed, engineer, engineers, hoist, hoisted, hoisting, profound, Romans, stood, The Engineer, tradition, work in
«The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.»
«The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
characterization, European, footnote, footnotes, philosophical, Plato, safest, The European, tradition
«The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times, for through modern development of economic life, the family»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Schools
| Keywords:
applies, economic, Economic development, former, higher degree, Modern School, one generation, The Family, The school, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, tradition, transfer, transferred, transferring, transfers
«The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
oldest, three hundred, tradition
«Tradition is a guide and not a jailer»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Traditions
| Keywords:
jailer, tradition
«Tradition is the illusion of permanance.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Traditions
| Keywords:
illusion, tradition
