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«There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on the Africans-who were not allowed to learn to read and write-and on the Native Americans, who were simply not allowed.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
Africans, allowed, American values, ancient, centuries, imposed, native, Native American, not allowed, speakers, traditional
«I didn't have any interest in traditional art.»
Author: Cindy Sherman
| Keywords:
traditional
«She is said to be inclined to cough noisily when he goes on too long at the rostrum; but this is a traditional prerogative of the political wife, and rather more necessary in this instance than in most.»
«The history of society, like the lives of men, is subject to ups and downs rendered easier to bear by dreams of a better future, as Marxist critics have vigorously asserted in their criticism of the traditional religions, overlooking the fact that Ma»
Author: Jacques Givet
| Keywords:
asserted, Marxist, Marxists, overlooking, rendered, The Downs, traditional, vigorously
«Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| About:
Revolution
| Keywords:
contradictory, preexisting, the uprising, traditional, uprising, uprisings
«I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| Keywords:
clothes, copy, geographic, leaf, leafing, lucky, national, realizing, traditional, wear
«Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
justification,
Logic,
Traditions
| Keywords:
custom, get rid of, harder, justify, justifying, less, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, The Less, to get, traditional
«There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
impose, mandate, mandated, mandates, Return to, traditional, values, voluntary
«Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditional or invented absurdities»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdities, anonymous, Book of, Book of Moses, fables, Genesis, Moses, stood, take away, The Author, The Strange, traditional, Word of God
«Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
abandoned, Age to Age, heroic, modified, religious truth, statement, traditional