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"If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions."
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"Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected."
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"Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own."
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"I reserve magick for necessities, a bit like the good china. It has a time and a place, but eating peanut butter sandwiches off it each morning chips and devalues it."
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"Rare and precious gifts,gold and myrrh and frankincense,to offer a king."
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"Every generation is inculcated in traditions of prejudice which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy."
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"She has very strong ideas about family - ideas that probably sound kind of sexist to you. She believes all dhampirs should train and put in time as guardians, but that the women should eventually return home to raise their children together.But not the men?No, he said wryly. She thinks men still need to stay out there and kill Strigoi."
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"So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect-only if they happen to be talking about Judaism."
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"Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller."
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"The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation."
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"I heard the bells on Christmas Day, Their old familiar carols play, And wild and sweet, The words repeat Of peace on earth good-will to men!"
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"If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions."
Tradition
"When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure."
Failure
"Genius is the talent for seeing things straight."
Talent
"Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best."
Life
"I had very little confidence in myself as an actress."
Confidence
"Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success."
Success
"You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan."
May
"I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews."
Mind
"Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us."
Success
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