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• [Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

  Paul Henderson

  Jobs, Serious, Aviation

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• Instruct regulators to look for the newest fad in the industry and examine it with great care. The next mistake will be a new way to make a loan that will not be repaid.

  L. William Seidman

  Mistake, Political, Looks

  "Bill Seidman's Brilliant Advice To Regulators" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. May 14, 2009.

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• A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets: Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

  Jennie Garth

  Regret, Body, Fad Diets

  "Jennie Garth: How I Made a Fresh Start". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. January 3, 2013.

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• We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two. If I could have one wish for education, it would be the systematic ordering of our basic knowledge in such a way that what is known and true can be acted on, while what is superstition, fad, and myth can be recognized as such and used only when there is nothing else to support us in our frustration and despair.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Inspirational, Education, Frustration

  Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1981). “All our children learning: a primer for parents, teachers, and other educators”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Children, Hair

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• The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Wise, Men, Cynical

  L. Ron Hubbard (1987). “Self Analysis”, p.3, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Pain, Grandparent, Joy

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something that works at all they plunge ahead with it and ignore its weak spots... scientists are just as bad as the rest of the public in following fads and being influenced by mass enthusiasm.

  Vannevar Bush

  Science, Ideas, Weak Spots

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• A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Long, Mind

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• Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Religious, Mean, Self

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• Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted - and it's a good addiction to have.

  Lynda Resnick

  People, Addiction, Juice

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• Social media is not a fad because it's human.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Media, Blogging, Social

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• Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A course of investment, once charted, should be given time to work out. Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

  David Dreman

  Fashion, Work Out, Investing

  David Dreman (1998). “Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

  Douglas Wilson

  Christian, Kids, Intellectual

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• R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

  Aretha Franklin

  Music

  Aretha Franklin (1999). “Aretha: From These Roots”

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• Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958.

  Jeff Beck

  Mom, Guitar, Two

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• Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

  Marla Gibbs

  Culture, Heritage, Alive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

  Paul Brunton

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Luxury

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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• Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others' "fads" through the greed of getting supporters. Your Âtman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of? Wait with patience and love and strength; if helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Mean, Support

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1678, Manonmani Publishers

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• The new fad thing that's going through America and around the world. It's called global warming.

  Steve Stockman

  America, World, Global Warming

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• The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse flavors and sometimes good old-fashioned smoke.

  Tyler Cowen

  Fire, Flavor, World

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• As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of expression. I like to write music which takes its inspiration from poetry, art and nature. I do not care for purely decorative music. Although I am in sympathy with modern idioms, I abhor music which attempts nothing more than the illustration of a stylistic fad. And in using modern techniques, I have tried at all times to subjugate them to a larger idea or a grander human feeling.

  Bernard Herrmann

  Art, Inspiration, Writing

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• Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.

  Erik Qualman

  Media, Fundamentals, Way

  Erik Qualman (2010). “Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business”, p.288, John Wiley & Sons

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• I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Fashion, Thinking, Thoughtful

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