Read quote“The only way for us to become great, and even, if it is possible, inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.”
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About Tradition
Inherited customs, practices, beliefs, and the relationship between past and present.
The collection
Words on Tradition
Read quote“Bence Galatasaraylılık din gibi, mezhep gibi yerleşmiş, köklü bir inançtır.”
Read quote“Tradition is not constant and static; it grows and builds.”
Read quote“The only way for us to become great, and indeed—if this is possible—inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.”
Read quote“There was no custom for me to follow.”
Read quote“I cannot accept the concept of total regionalism.”
Read quote“The nation cannot be pulled up by its roots, cannot be dissociated from its past, without danger to its highest interests.”
Read quote“We are breaking with the past, because we cannot accept its hypotheses.”
Read quote“لغتنا للأسف لا تزال بدوية تلتزم الخيام، وتقنع بالعيش في الوبر، وتحلم بالغيبيات.”
Read quote“Arctic sovereignty means having the ability to exercise one’s culture based upon the many characteristics that define a people, such as your language, your traditions, values, history, geography.”
Read quote“In most tribal traditions, no data is discarded as unimportant or irrelevant.”
Read quote“Philanthropy is in the DNA of my family.”
Read quote“Được dự vào hàng công huân cao quý, cố sao đền đáp ơn vua vừa mới ban xuống; Nối dõi thư hương, càng gắng giữ nếp cũ thanh bạch của nhà xưa.”
Read quote“The preservation of language is the cornerstone of a culture’s survival.”
Read quote“惟和力以唐人为圭臬。”
Read quote“Whoever submits to our Prophet Muḥammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, and believes in him and affirms what he brought of sharia, externally and internally, in belief and in practice, he is then a Muslim, a believer.”
Read quote“The Most High Himself revealed to me that I should live according to the form of the Holy Gospel.”
Read quote“Má rodná mluvo, ty drahý skvoste, / jediný z velkého odkazu dědů.”
Read quote“天变不足畏，祖宗不足法，人言不足恤。”
Original editorial
Quote Stories about Tradition
Elian Leaves the Thread Loose
When a young costume designer brings Elian a box of mismatched buttons, he expects to make one final, proper set of garments. A rehearsal disaster persuades him to try something less familiar: letting the whole riverside market invent the costumes with him.
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The Bellmaker’s Borrowed Hands
When the school bell cracks days before term begins, a proud bellmaker must trust an impatient child and a handful of apprentices with the work she has always done alone.
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