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“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.” G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
“Nice customs curtsy to great kings.” William Shakespeare, Henry V
“Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice to change true rules for odd inventions.” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a nonconformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“The more ancient an institution, the greater the number of its idioms; the worse the suffering in a particular age, the more the idioms multiply.” Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew
“What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz...” Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“Do not deny the classical approach simply as a reaction, for you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.” JAY-Z, Decoded

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