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Quote by Auguste Comte
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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In America nothing dies easier than tradition. – Russell Baker

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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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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. – Dorothy Day

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

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