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The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
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The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
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The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929) -
The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously. It is the story you must take that way.... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.
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Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
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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.
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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 the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
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