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  1. Terry Eagleton _ Reason, Faith, and Revolution:

    The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.
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  2. Pat Conroy _ The Lords of Discipline

    The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them.
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Wizard of Earthsea

    The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written {or rewritten for children} in England and northern Europe. The principal characters were men. If the story was heroic, the hero was a white man; most dark-skinned people were inferior or evil. If there was a woman in the story, she was a passive object of desire and rescue {a beautiful blond princess}; active women {dark, witches} usually caused destruction or tragedy. Anyway, the stories weren't about the women. They were about men, what men did, and what was important to men.
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  4. Karen Armstrong _ Twelve Steps to a

    We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. {22}
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  5. Zadie Smith _ White Teeth

    If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister.
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  6. Edith Wharton _ The Age of Innocence

    Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about marriage. It was less trouble to conform with the tradition and treat May exactly as all his friends treated their wives than to try to put into practice the theories with which his untrammelled bachelorhood had dallied.
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  7. Daniel C. Dennett _ Breaking the Spell: Religion

    Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyal-the "eternal" tradition introduced to them in their youth-is in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition.
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  8. Pearl S. Buck _ East Wind: West Wind

    Je suis comme un pont fragile, reliant à travers l'infini le passé et le présent. Je serre la main maternelle. Je ne peux pas la laisser échapper, car sans moi ma mère serait seule.
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  9. Mary Doria Russell _ The Sparrow

    Tradition was safety; change was danger.
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  10. William Shakespeare _ Henry V

    Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
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  11. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.
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  12. Wallace Stegner _ Crossing to Safety

    We were two of a kind, the only difference being that he was reverential before all the traditional word magic, and I would steal it if I could. He came to the tradition as a pilgrim, I as a pickpocket.
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