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- "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."[1]
- "I've Never Seen That. I Hate It."[2]
- " I just don't like it."
- "I can't admit that maybe the past was bad."[3]
- "Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent."[4]
- "The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from the old ones."[5]
- “Change tends to fill people with this incredible fear.”[6]
- "Habit with him was all the test of truth, / It must be right: I've done it from my youth"[7]
Following advice at wp:layout the Related information heading has been added on an article-by-article basis. The concept has not met with much opposition from the editors familiar with those articles. Instead, opposition has come from a handful of outside editors, often expressing a visceral dislike of the concept in the form of blanket reverts.[8] This page responds to concerns raised by those editors.
- ^ -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)
- ^ "instant reactions to the 'new' are often misguided" - http://volumeone.org/street/a/article14
- ^ lyric from the song Momentum - http://www.ildb.info/Aimee+Mann-MOMENTUM,lid221787-a585.html
- ^ Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel prize in literature (1872-1970)
- ^ John Maynard Keynes
- ^ Rem Koolhaas - [1]
- ^ -George Crabbe, poet and naturalist (1754-1832)
- ^ See, for example, these twelve "no" edits.