<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425428" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Initiative - Paradox</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though siren songs of progress spur Man higher, <br>like Icarus, beware ambitions' fire! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Conservatives of every hue <br>advance that common caveat -<br>whenever faced with something new<br>they seldom fail to smell a rat.<br>They therefore counsel caution due<br>before attempting this or that, <br>implying that inventions new, -<br>to wit: all that is not old-hat, -<br>are heresy, could threaten too.<br>You want a turn? Go out and bat! <br>Youth to youth true, what you must... do! <br>Don't wait too late, when old and fat, -<br>their attitude appears askew, <br>could be ignored, accepting that...<br> <br>Sure, though to safety's shore returned his sire, <br>Daedalus' fate, forgot by most, was dire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(9 September 1981)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425428" data-title="Initiative - Paradox de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Though siren songs of progress spur Man higher, like Icarus, beware ambitions' fire! Conservatives of every hue advance that common caveat - whenever faced with something new they seldom fail to smell a rat. They therefore counsel caution due ..."></div> </div> </div>

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