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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the cons

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. – Mark Twain

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Habits
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Mark Twain
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. – Mark Twain

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Birthday
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Mark Twain
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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Conservatism
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. – John Maynard Keynes

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Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. – Ambrose Bierce

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Conservatism

The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations. – Henry Kissinger

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Conservatism

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal. – Frank Dane

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Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent Basement Tapes will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilsons reasons for the destruction of the tapes for Smile. – Jon Landau

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