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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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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
— Jacques Barzun
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People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
— Edward R. Murrow
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They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.
— Buster Keaton
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So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting…
— Brian De Palma
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Shooting is a lost art, but nobody wants to see nobody shoot all day. You want to see somebody break somebody off…
— Dwyane Wade
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In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our…
— Bernard Lown
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The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
— Alan Villiers
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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
— Evan Esar
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That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.
— Ryan Kwanten
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Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny…
— Johnny Carson
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A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.
— Neil Genzlinger
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God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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