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As in other contexts, I’d rather be progressive.

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"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." G. K. Chesterton (books by this author), born in London (1874)

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"I was simmering, simmering, simmering," Whitman later said. "Emerson brought me to a boil."

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." – G. K. Chesterton

“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.” — Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,” Dr. Hawking said. #qotd

Artistic director records “music” from inside a head of lettuce. [Thanks for the quote marks.] #qotd

“The problem is not a … talk show host, but conservatism itself … has become a landfill. Limbaugh is just a seagull circling the top.”–Leonard Pitts #qotd

“There’s class warfare, all right,” Warren Buffett told the Times, back in 2006, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." — Sam Adams