"Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living."

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Source : Jaroslav Pelikan, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Patrick Henry (2005). “Orthodoxy & Western Culture: A Collection of Essays Honoring Jaroslav Pelikan on His Eightieth Birthday”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

Jaroslav Pelikan

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“We were never designed to receive glory. We were designed to give glory.”
“If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.7, Broadway Books
“I am not getting you a brain, because I am not that kind of assistant, Dr. Frankenstein.”
“I love New York City for its energy. Pebble Beach, Carmel Beach and that all area, for its completely laid back energy. Paris for the charm, shopping and the glamour.”
“Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who protest most in the provinces against anarchists, disorganisers, Dantonism, Robespierrism, Jacobinism... Do not cherish any longer the popular errors; cut at the roots of superstition! Declare openly that the priests are your enemies.”
“I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.”
“The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.”
“You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.”

Source : "Anthony Head and Colin Morgan Get Medieval with Merlin". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. June 4, 2009.

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