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Quote by Stephen Bayley
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradit

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny mans ability to adapt to changing circumstances. – Stephen Bayley

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I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive. – Stephen Bayley

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Travel
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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth. – Stephen Bayley

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Progress
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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. – Stephen Bayley

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Manners
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Other Quotes from
Tradition
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Tradition

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. – Allan Bloom

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Tradition

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. – G. K. Chesterton

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Tradition

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? – Eric Hoffer

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Tradition

Random Quotes

One half who graduate from college never read another book. – G. M. Trevelyan

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Graduation

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning. – Toots Thielemans

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Morning

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. – Charles Stanley

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Wisdom

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity. – Albert Camus

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Necessity