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I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
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Most of us are 'ultraconformists' when it comes to who we are most likely to follow ... to socialise with, or even who we are most likely to hire.
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Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quite a traditionalist.
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Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.
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If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.
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I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being passed between generations and the slow transmission of cultural values through tradition.
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
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I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.
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Conventional might not always be the right thing.
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Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.
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Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.
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When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.
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One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.
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[Traditions] give voice to what in some sense we already know, but inarticulately. When tradition is silenced, people have to work all these things out for themselves - and that is impossible.
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Custom is the Guide of the Ignorant.
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My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.
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My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.
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Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what one's own tradition is, what one belongs to and what gives valid shape to one's life.
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Middle-status conformity leads us to choose the safety of the tried-and-true over the danger of the original. Sociologists
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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
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I am one with the popular culture.
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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.
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Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
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Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.
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In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)
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Tradition is the blind witness they use to condemn us,
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Idealistic and self-sufficient and rugged people they had once been, and
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Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetition
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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
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Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
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Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.
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Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.
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Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
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I'm very old fashioned.
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Those [who] assiduously fabricate for themselves a self-conscious originality, and after having made a choice of certain practices, their principal preoccupation is never to depart from them, to remain for ever on their guard and allow themselves not a moment's relaxation.
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Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.
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The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish.
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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
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I'm not old-fashioned.
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Convention is another name for the habits of society.
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The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
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I'm sort of a traditionalist usually. I love old soul music and The Beatles; I realized I was sort of trying to make music sometimes that fit into an era that's gone.
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In discussing tradition, we are not discussing arbitrary rules and conventions. We are discussing answers that have been discovered to enduring questions. These
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Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.
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The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.
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As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people the underlying value of that which is traditional, that which is prescriptive.
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Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
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Modern society becomes more and more complex by the day. What used to be traditional isn't necessarily traditional anymore.
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I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
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Tradition is for the weak.
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Contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us,
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.
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People will selectively use "tradition" to justify anything.
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I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.
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There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.
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There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
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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.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.
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Again, do you call those men leisured who spend many hours at the barber's simply to cut whatever grew overnight, to have a serious debate about every separate hair, to tidy up disarranged locks or to train thinning ones from the sides to lie over the forehead?
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Tradition is a challenge to innovation..
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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
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I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.
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Tradition converts oddity into ordinary.
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Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.
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I'm very conventional compared to my parents.
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Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.
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a child without tradition is a child crippled before the world. Tradition
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They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
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Those guys who want to have the Mohawk ... which, to me, is the new business casual.
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I'd say we are traditionalist. We are heavy on discipline and relatively strict and structured. But we also make sure our children feel not just physically safe but emotionally safe, like they can come to us with anything.
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Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.
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I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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Traditions cannot themselves, simply with their own powers, do what needs to be done. These earlier experiences and accomplishments were dealing with other issues, providing guidance for different worlds than the world of the early twenty-first century.
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As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
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There is no one so cruel as a utopian who sees traditionalists standing in the way of the March of History.
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I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!
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Tradition is a very powerful force.
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I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.
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Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday ... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side ... in the great ideological wars of our time.
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There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends,
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I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.
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Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
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Futilitarianism.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
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Conservative resistance to change, that's all,
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There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am.
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...and lovers of romance novels and dissident rebels and brothers in Christ and druids and shamans and aphrodisiac vendors and scriveners and purveyors of real fake passports and gun-runners and porters and bric-a-brac trades and mining prospectors short on liquid assets and Siamese twins...
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Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.
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The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.
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Traditions brings continuity to one's existence, but this sort of continuity is precisely what has been increasingly lost
throughout modernity.
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A type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.