"Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future."

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Source : "Wall Street Protests: Cash-Roots" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2011.

Jill Lepore

#Past Quotes #Innovation Quotes #Different Quotes

“Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.”
“I am Scottish. I am also British.”
“Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals”
“Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.”

Source : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.7, Litres
“A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.”
“These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.”
“The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.”
“The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.”

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