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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for…
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game -…
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in…
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
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The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit…
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are…
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Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied…
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??
— Unknown Author
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and…
— Lord Acton
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Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from…
— Jacques Barzun
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The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power…
— Frank Herbert
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
— Harry Shearer
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
— Edmund Wilson
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We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I…
— Robert Caro
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which…
— Lord Acton
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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
— Vinton Cerf
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It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful…
— Terence Rattigan
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they…
— Lord Acton
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