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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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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
— Lord Byron
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I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I…
— Steve Carell
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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in…
— Winston Churchill
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Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary…
— Theobald Smith
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There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
— Sun Tzu
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
— Seneca the Younger
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When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress…
— Sun Tzu
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What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.
— Sun Tzu
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The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they…
— Paulo Freire
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Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.
— Benedict of Nursia
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War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
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