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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Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.
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To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.
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Some people always know the price, but not the value.
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The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.
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Of course we'll win. They're so scared of George they'll do anything to win.
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I shivered. Careful, I told myself. You don't want to set yourself up for a fall. Be happy. Just not too happy.
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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.
