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

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Media, Blogging, Social

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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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• We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

  Adrienne Rich

  Writing, White, History

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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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• The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Party, Gay, Rights

  At the March on Washington, April 25, 1993.

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• In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Christian, Religious, Culture

  Stephen L. Carter (1993). “The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion”, Basic Books

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• Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them. These two groups bring great pressure to bear upon politicians who have another agenda yet:
  to cater to the temporary whims and fads of the public and the press.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Two, Special, Pressure

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.197, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.

  Aubrey Daniels

  Management, Behavior, Trendy

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• The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

  Gary Holland

  Art, Dark, Sunshine

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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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• 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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• When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: who is doing it? Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.

  Peter York

  Real, People, World

  "This Much I Know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.

  Nathan Pritikin

  Perfect, Fad Diets, Want

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• The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Children, Fall, Grandparent

  "On Growing Up Tough (The Purple Lodge & The Hippies)". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1971.

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• In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.

  Del Howison

  Halloween, Topics, Gimmicks

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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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• I think that there was a fad where everyone said, "I want you to create a signature step for my artist." The thing is, for me, music creates the step. The artist commands the step, you know?

  Laurieann Gibson

  Thinking, Artist, Want

  "Laurieann Gibson: ‘Backup dancer’ isn’t even in my vocabulary". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 27, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

  David Lloyd George

  Doctors, Opinion

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