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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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Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. – Dorothy Day

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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. – 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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. – Henry David Thoreau

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There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. – Alexander Herzen

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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. – Allan Bloom

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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. – The Eagles, “Already Gone”

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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. – Robert Bork

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