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Quote by Dorothy Day
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. – Dorothy Day

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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. – Dorothy Day

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Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling. – Dorothy Day

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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. – Dorothy Day

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Im an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. – Johnny Depp

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I felt theres a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. Id be a jerk not to take advantage of it. – Herman Wouk

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A precedent embalms a principle. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. – G. K. Chesterton

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? – Vincent Van Gogh

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All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers. – Catherine Deneuve

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Beware of a man of one book. – English Proverb

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Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. – Charlotte Bronte

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