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Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.


Rowan D. Williams


#age #ageing #anxiety #communicates #culture

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.


Saul Williams


#does #fool #great #great deal #history

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.


Tobias Wolff


#already #aware #because #difficulties #done

I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.


Kristi Yamaguchi


#i #i think #kind #men #mind

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.


Fareed Zakaria


#also #barrier #barriers #berlin #berlin wall

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.


Aaron Sorkin


#great #i #kings #old #palaces

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.


Jamie Zawinski


#expertise #folks #getting #hand #like

Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.


Jonah Goldberg


#against #american #balances #checks #country

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.


Andrew Greeley


#been #catholic #characteristics #combination #combined

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.


Daniel Greenberg


#digital #digital world #information #live #making






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