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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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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game -…
— Jacques Barzun
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I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a…
— Andy Cohen
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Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own…
— Esther Williams
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows…
— Rachael Harris
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three…
— Warren Christopher
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I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.
— Johnny Manziel
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I am a small-town girl.
— Claire McCaskill
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The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
— Lou Barletta
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I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.
— Erica Durance
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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
— Buzz Bissinger
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On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
— Alison Gopnik
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Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town…
— Susan Orlean
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