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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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In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think,…
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate.
— Alain Vigneault
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In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other…
— Khalil Gibran
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We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
— Eric Hoffer
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If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but…
— Erwin Chargaff
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
— Langston Hughes
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A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
— Solon
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Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off…
— Thomas Jefferson
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