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Jacques Barzun has 91 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
— Larry Bird
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I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
— James Norman Hall
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work.…
— Jim Henson
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One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.
— Edwin Moses
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Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a…
— Wilferd Peterson
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I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.
— David McCullough
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Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and…
— David Morrissey
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
— Ford Frick
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In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than…
— Jacques Barzun
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