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"Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead."
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"Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build."
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
"I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles."
"They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives."
"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."
"Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves, and to mix a little liberally in their feasts the influence of Dionysos, that good deity who restores to younger men their gaiety and to old men their youth...fit to inspire old men with mettle to divert themselves in dancing and music; things of great use, and that they dare not attempt when sober."
"I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth."
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"Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence."
"Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease."
"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."
"In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here."
"US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan."
"Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict."
"Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective."
"There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle."
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