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Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.
by John Templeton (Businessman, American , born in 1912) keywords: anybody, been, being, church, come, concept, had, new, out, step, suspicion, teachings, tradition, under, up , would My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.
by Michael Tippett (Composer, English , born in 1905) keywords: age-old, continue, create, depths, embraces, form, function, give, images, imagination, intellectual, musical, society, them, tradition, true, us, visual, whether, which , within I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.
by Kathleen Turner (Actor, American , born in 1954) keywords: actress, body, enough, europeans, experience, new, ones, out, respect, sell, think, tradition , work We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.
by Eamon de Valera (Statesman, Irish , born in 1882) keywords: dead, end, faithful, generations, glorious, heritage, intact, our, ourselves, part, pass, perseverance, played, pledged, preserved, strive, time, too, tradition, us , will We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.
by Thomas Vilsack (Politician, American , born in 1950) keywords: caring, iowa, long, neighbors, our, state, tradition, truly , value In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.
by Andrzej Wajda (Director, Polish , born in 1926) keywords: also, changed, changes, focus, great, had, literature, motivation, period, polish, psychological, rather, same, significant, social, some, strong, than, tradition, underwent, way , which I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.
by Diane Wakoski (Poet, American , born in 1937) keywords: active, always, american, apolitical, comes, even, missing, out, poetry, point, pointing, political, politically, question, think, towards, tradition, which, write , writers I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.
by Diane Wakoski (Poet, American , born in 1937) keywords: am, another, before, hoping, line, long, myself, newer, other, part, pass, passing, poets, than, tradition, went, which , younger There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
by George Wald (Scientist, American , born in 1906) keywords: defend, having, ideological, material, nothing, nuclear, obtained, self-defeating, tradition, utterly, war , worth What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
by Andy Warhol (Artist, American , born in 1927) keywords: america, buy, consumers, country, essentially, great, poorest, richest, same, started, things, tradition , where Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
by Bernice Weissbourdkeywords: because, child, come, community, cultural, determined, families, family, inseparable, live, lives, only, tradition , which I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
by Irvine Welsh (Novelist, Scottish , born in 1961) keywords: celtic, clubs, even, everybody, grew, kind, nobody, parties, place, pub, raves, story, storyteller, storytelling, tradition, up, where, would , wrote The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
by Alfred North Whitehead (Mathematician, English , born in 1861) keywords: characterization, consists, european, footnotes, general, philosophical, plato, safest, series , tradition My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
by Rowan Williams (Theologian, English , born in 1950) keywords: autumn, between, canterbury, continue, opportunity, rich, rome, tradition, visit , visits Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: again, already, aware, because, difficulties, done, form, more, tradition, want, weight, write , your If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
by Carter G. Woodson (Historian, American , born in 1875) keywords: becomes, being, danger, exterminated, factor, history, negligible, race, stands, thought, tradition, world , worthwhile I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
by Herman Wouk (Novelist, American , born in 1915) keywords: advantage, felt, great, inheritance, jerk, jewish, take, tradition , wealth I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.
by Chely Wright (Musician, American , born in 1970) keywords: deciding, evolve, important, know, make, much, music, think, tradition , very
