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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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Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again. – Dorothy Day

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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers. – 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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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? – Eric Hoffer

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

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In America nothing dies easier than tradition. – Russell Baker

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