“I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.”
Robert Charles Wilson book Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 234
“[C]onservatism is not supposed to be against change or progress… It is supposed to be skeptical of grandiose or reckless schemes which throw out the good in pursuit of the perfect.”
2000s, 2000, Who the Hell Do You Think You Are? (2000)
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