"Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them."

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Joseph Addison

#Important Quotes #Helping Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.”
“Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .”
“The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.”
“it is far better to appreciate and not to possess, than to possess and not to appreciate.”
“I am double jointed in my elbow. So I can turn it all the way around and then bend it so it looks like it's broken.”
“In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.”

Source : John James Audubon (1996). “Selected Journals and Other Writings”, Penguin Group USA
“Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.”
“and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love...”

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