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Quote by Alfred Jarry
To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea be

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form. – Alfred Jarry

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It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original inexhaustible beauty. – Alfred Jarry

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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. – Alfred Jarry

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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. – Henry David Thoreau

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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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Why cant somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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