Evan Osnos Quotes
By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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Sunlight is painting.
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I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.
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Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.
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Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
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Tradition has made women cowardly.
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Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
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The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.
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You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
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American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.
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No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.
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Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.
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I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.
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We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit from their achievements -- but still recognize that there is not a higher good than motherhood and fatherhood in marriage. There is no superior career, and no amount of money, authority or public acclaim can exceed the ultimate rewards of family.
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I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.
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By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.
