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The dead govern the living. - Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living. – Auguste Comte

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. – Auguste Comte

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

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In America nothing dies easier than tradition. – Russell Baker

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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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