Friday, December 08, 2023

First Paragraph

It is my impression that no one really likes the new. We are afraid of it. It is not only as Dostoyevsky put it that "taking a new step, uttering a new word is what people fear most." Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

- The Ordeal of Change by Eric Hoffer

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