People Are Always Talking About Tradition, But They Forget We Have A Tradition Of A Few Hundred Years Of Nonsense And Stupidity, That There Is A Tradition Of Idiocy, Incompetence And Crudity.

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People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have
a tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity, that
there is a tradition of idiocy, incompetence and crudity.
-- Hugo Demartini, in "Contemporary Artists", 1977

Tradition is always the last refuge for the incompetent.
That's the problem with tradition, it's always dated. -- Curt George Siffe
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. -- W. Somerset Maugham
What's all the fuss about? The MIRV is in the great American tradition of bombs bursting in air.
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
-- Winston Churchill...
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
-- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Mismeasure of Ma...
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
-- S.J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Ma...
Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
-- Kurt Herbert Alde...
Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or money to do it right. ADLER

People Are Always Talking About Tradition, But They Forget We Have A Tradition Of A Few Hundred Years Of Nonsense And Stupidity, That There Is A Tradition Of Idiocy, Incompetence And Crudity.

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