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There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. – Alexander Herzen

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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. – Alexander Herzen

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Liberalism
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Alexander Herzen
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It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. – Alexander Herzen

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Ideology
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Alexander Herzen
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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! – Alexander Herzen

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

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Tradition

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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Tradition

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? – Eric Hoffer

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Tradition

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny mans ability to adapt to changing circumstances. – Stephen Bayley

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Tradition

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Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears. – Rumi

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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. – Robert Burton

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