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Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. - Joseph Addison The dead governs the living. - Auguste Comte We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs. - Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. - Jiddu Krishnamurti Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living. - Harold Macmillan Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. - Lewis Mumford To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. - Archbishop Richard Whately To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking. - Thomas Woodrow Wilson
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