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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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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
— Emily Bronte
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what…
— Thomas Huxley
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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.
— Victor LaValle
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No one is talking about the man behind the ass. It was a lot of 'Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,' but never,…
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The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams…
— Carl Sagan
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Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you…
— Khalil Gibran
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A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a…
— Trevor Baylis
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What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.
— Art Blakey
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It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of…
— Scott Simon
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God's mill grinds slow, but sure.
— George Herbert
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We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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