#tradition

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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.


Edsger Dijkstra


#am #ancestors #cultural #derive #feeling

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.


Margaret Drabble


#approved #choices #dangerous #dangerous place #family life

I haven't traditionally been a family entertainer.


David Walliams


#entertainer #family #haven #i #traditionally

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.


Robert Fitzgerald


#go #homer #i #know #now

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.


Robert Fitzgerald


#bob #bob dylan #dylan #guitar #heard

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.


Vera Wang


#break #came #even #give #go

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.


Andy Warhol


#america #buy #consumers #country #essentially

The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.


Mike Weir


#courses #event #every #fan #forward

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.


Richard Whately


#avoid #corrupted #danger #exchange #follow

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.


Margaret J. Wheatley


#changes #confronted #control #external #initiated