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Quote by Dorothy Day
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be

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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The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on. – Dorothy Day

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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. – Dorothy Day

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Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again. – Dorothy Day

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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 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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Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. – Bertrand Russell

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

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Democracy is an abuse of statistics. – Jorge Luis Borges

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