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America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities…

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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that…
I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in…
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.…
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have…
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements…
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories;…
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts…
...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music…
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid…

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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment… — Irving Babbitt
Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist. — Andrew Carnegie
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a… — Camille Paglia
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. — David McCullough
The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. — Unknown Author
In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding… — Stefan Collini
The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must… — Lewis Mumford
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on… — Noam Chomsky
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and… — Joseph Stiglitz
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. — Unknown Author
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false — Clifford Geertz
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and… — Ken Robinson

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