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A precedent embalms a principle. - Benjamin Disraeli

A precedent embalms a principle. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. – Benjamin Disraeli

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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. – Benjamin Disraeli

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

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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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The dead govern the living. – Auguste Comte

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

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