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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and
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"There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea"

- Barbara Amiel

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United Kingdom Flag This quote is written / told by Barbara Amiel somewhere between December 4, 1940 and today. He/she was a famous Journalist from United Kingdom. The author also have 24 other quotes.

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