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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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I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. – Dorothy Day

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Why cant somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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The dead govern the living. – Auguste Comte

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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. – W. Somerset Maugham

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