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Traditions
«I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.»
Author: Amy Vanderbilt
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
compromises, discarded, genteel, Traditions
«All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
All messages, basically, carry, compassion, daily, forgiveness, major, majors, message, religious, the majors, Traditions
«Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.»
«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
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«No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
customs, factors, foremost, framework, legal system, regulate, stability, stabilize, stabilized, stabilizing, systems, Traditions, wherein, world affairs
«For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: / And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Above and Beyond, beyond measure, Church of, Church of God, exceedingly, The Church of, Traditions
«Unless we know the value of other religious traditions, it is difficult to develop respect for them. Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony. We should strive for a spirit of harmony, not for political or economic reasons, but rather simply because we realize the value of other traditions. I always make an effort to promote religious harmony.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
economic, foundation, genuine, mutual, promote, strive, The Foundation, Traditions
«A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them»
«Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
altogether, connection, custom, customs, fatal, incalculable, tradition, Traditions, weather
