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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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Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsburys is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting. – Stephen Bayley

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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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Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers – Stephen Bayley

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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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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity. – Medard Boss

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

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality. – Paramahansa Yogananda

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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education. – Jodi Rell

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The belly rules the mind. – Spanish proverb

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