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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 What an enormous "camera-obscura" tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory, in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it; and in the darkness in the entire ignorance, without date or document, no book, no Arundel marble, only here and there some dull monumental cairn! - Thomas Carlyle 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 There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise. - James Russell Lowell 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 Tradition wears a snowy beard. - John Greenleaf Whittier To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking. - Thomas Woodrow Wilson
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