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"I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go."
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"In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful."
"Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!"
"It is often said by the critics of Christian origins that certain ritual feasts, processions or dances are really of pagan origin. They might as well say that our legs are of pagan origin. Nobody ever disputed that humanity was human before it was Christian; and no Church manufactured the legs with which men walked or danced, either in a pilgrimage or a ballet. What can really be maintained, so as to carry not a little conviction, is this: that where such a Church has existed it has preserved not only the processions but the dances; not only the cathedral but the carnival. One of the chief claims of Christian civilisation is to have preserved things of pagan origin."
"I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."
"A traditional house smelled of wood smoke, the earth, and of thatch; all good smells, the smell of life itself."
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"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."
"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."
"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
"On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away."
"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
"All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice."
"While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice."
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