"My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way"

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Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

— Walter Lippmann