Darren Dowden

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Jacques Barzun
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
Jacques Barzun

J. Krishnamurti
“Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.”
J. Krishnamurti

Lemony Snicket
“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.”
Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

Mark Twain
“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Matthew Scully
“Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.”
Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

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