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The issues that matter to women also matter to communities... and these issues have a ripple effect all across the country. And the purist sense of the feminist tradition - feminism is not anti-man. It is pro-humanity.
- Nina Turner
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Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.
- Channing Tatum
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Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.
- Nadia Comaneci
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We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
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My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. It's endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing.
- Pippa Middleton
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I know certain pro dancers would like to dance with a woman because that is what tradition is, and it kind of makes sense but it is very much down to someone's personal opinion of what Ballroom and Latin dancing actually is.
- A. J. Pritchard
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I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition.
- Louis L'Amour
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Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.
- Sean McDermott
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I was blessed to play a small role in the Steelers tradition.
- Bill Cowher
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I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.
- Josephine de La Baume
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In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.
- Dennis Banks
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Mexican fighters have a great tradition. They come to fight, and they don't back down.
- Errol Spence Jr.
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The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.
- Louis de Bernieres
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One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.
- Kumar Mangalam Birla
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Wimbledon is quite simply the ultimate championship, and I'd be the first to admit it was the one I wanted to win. A lot has to do with the history and the tradition: the grass courts, the royal box, the grand spectacle of it all.
- Tim Henman
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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.
- John Templeton
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In pursuing my fervent goal of relating external stimuli to reports about internal-neural change, we were, paradoxically enough, following the most orthodox tradition in psychology.
- Timothy Leary
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Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
- Jill Lepore
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
- Hansjorg Wyss
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Baldwin gave expression to the longings of blacks in exalted prose. He was embraced, in the tradition of Negro Firsterism, even by those who never sat down with a book, as our preeminent literary spokesman, whether he liked it or not. Neither athlete nor entertainer, but nevertheless a star.
- Darryl Pinckney
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When I was in high school, I looked for the black presence in a British historical tradition - before too much slavery and empire - that would not cost me my self-respect.
- Darryl Pinckney
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We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.
- Rashid al-Ghannushi
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There's a tradition in the history of dissent in authoritarian countries of a certain kind of dissident, and their form of dissent is to live their lives as normally as possible.
- Evan Osnos
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The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.
- Candace Parker
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One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
- Zooey Deschanel
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One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'
- Julie Burchill
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The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.
- Christopher Buckley
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I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.
- King Krule
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After my mother died, I learned that she'd had a scholarship to the University of Nebraska, but - in kind of a tradition that females don't do things like that - her father prevented her from going. She always said that she wasn't allowed to go to college, but until she died, I never knew that she'd had this scholarship.
- Barry Barish
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I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I'm using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience.
- Helen Vendler
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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Stephen Bayley
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We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.
- Klaus Schulze
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It's time to realise that tradition is fantastic but if because of tradition and only tradition you lose everyone it's less fantastic so you have to keep some tradition to this sport of course but you also have to live in your century.
- Patrick Mouratoglou
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For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
- Mira Nair
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When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.
- Michael Baumgartner
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There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.
- Rick Moranis
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In the United States, the mainstream news outlets like to portray themselves as observers, content to let events play out without interference. But in Britain, where crusading journalistic campaigns are part of the tradition, it is far more acceptable for reporters to become active participants, with a specific outcome in mind.
- Jo Becker
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
- Gael Garcia Bernal
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The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
- James Mark Baldwin
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I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
- Herman Wouk
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The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.
- Donald Wuerl
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Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
- Ruth Hubbard
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At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.
- Luis Walter Alvarez
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
- Sam Trammell
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The tradition of Umuganda is a beautiful and inspiring one. It connects people to their surrounds and creates a responsible community.
- Clemantine Wamariya
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The 'Evening News' is going to have a long run, both as a broadcast and as a presence online and on cellphones. It is a franchise with a very rich tradition.
- Steve Capus
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My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.
- Christian de Duve
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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.
- Irvine Welsh
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For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
- Simon Beaufoy
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I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that it's always done, judge.' I never found anything in the oath I took or the statutes I was asked to look at that said, 'Judge, stop thinking, because this is the way it was done before.'
- Jed S. Rakoff
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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
- Jeffery Deaver
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As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition.
- Kelvin Sampson
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There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
- Frans de Waal
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Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads kinda kidnapped the Dixie or Southern flag from its tradition and the heritage of the soldiers.
- Gary Rossington
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It's a tradition that a writer will try to plant his flag in a certain city and protect that. The way to get your rep is to find the essence of the city and get it down on paper.
- George Pelecanos
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If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition.
- Jim Crace
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Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century.
- Austin Clarke
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In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle when an immigration matter is not conducted in accord with the best of our tradition of courtesy and fairness.
- Maryanne Trump Barry
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There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.
- Mustafa Akyol
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Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.
- Robert Teeter
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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.
- Ari Fleischer
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Over the years, Good Deeds Day has annually gained greater popularity, spreading beyond geographical boundaries to include many more countries worldwide. International Good Deeds Day has become a global annual tradition of giving.
- Shari Arison
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Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.
- Peter Ackroyd
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The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
- Akiva ben Joseph
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I don't come from any great culinary tradition - I'm from London!
- Arthur Potts Dawson
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The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.
- Koichi Tanaka
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When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point.
- A. A. Gill
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We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.
- John Hickenlooper
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The tradition and style of the 'New York Times' make it very difficult to have objective coverage of China. If we could purchase it, its tone might turn around.
- Chen Guangbiao
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It means so much to me that my family went against our tradition for me.
- Sonita Alizadeh
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Wimbledon is the most prestigious tournament we have, and being able to win it with all the tradition, that's always been a dream of mine.
- Daniel Nestor
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By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.
- Evan Osnos
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
- Barry Marshall
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I've always liked the tradition of publishing work serially in the comic-book 'pamphlet' format and then collecting that work in book form, so I've just stuck with it.
- Adrian Tomine
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There's an honourable tradition of British actors who've gone to Hollywood playing baddies. Part of that is because we grow up with Richard III and Macbeth - we're not afraid of our villains.
- Mark Strong
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In the United States, the wealthy have a tradition of charity. But in Germany, the rich say, 'We pay taxes. It's enough.'
- Gunter Blobel
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The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics, the novel is not politically neutral; it has been a participant in history all along.
- Sally Rooney
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John Lee Hancock is someone that I had admired from afar. I think he is a wonderful director... in the tradition I would say both of Clint Eastwood and Frank Capra.
- Alison Owen
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I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
- Fred Melamed
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There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
- Maxine Hong Kingston
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We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil.
- Theodor Mommsen
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I've always been a big fan of taking old songs and completely turning them on their head. Having no adherence to the fine tradition of the original version. Rearranging them and taking a different approach to them.
- Joe Bonamassa
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Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.
- Stanley Hauerwas
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The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
- Robert Menzies
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I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.
- Matthew Desmond
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation's interests and enforcing its laws - all of them, not just selective ones - in a manner worthy of the department's name.
- Raymond Kethledge
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Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
- Ricky Williams
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There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.
- Madeleine M. Kunin
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It's very common in Iceland, this music-making and artistic expression by non-professionals. The brass band tradition is not as big, but there are choirs everywhere. So that's something that is familiar to me.
- Johann Johannsson
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Growing up in Luton, we'd always eat on a cloth, placed on the floor of the living room, with no TV allowed. There were no chairs back in Bangladesh and Dad wanted to keep the tradition, so we never owned a dining table.
- Nadiya Hussain
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
- Ted Rall
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I just want to keep the Puerto Rican tradition of champions alive.
- Danny Garcia
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Philly has that tradition of great basketball.
- Jrue Holiday
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'Big Night' is the best food movie ever made. It's such a celebration of food, and the Italian tradition of celebrating people. Plus, everything looked delicious!
- Julia Stiles
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
- Sam Harris
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The Super Bowl is an occasion that's really associated with abundance - lots of snacks, parties, spectacle - and so it would be great if there were also some kind of tradition of generosity attached to it as well.
- Josh Gondelman
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Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
- Ron Paul
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There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
- George Wald
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
- Hans Kung
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