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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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True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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…
— Jacques Barzun
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Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in…
— Everett Dirksen
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Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not…
— C.S. Lewis
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Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
— Kenneth Tynan
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They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't…
— Kristin Hannah
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For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.
— Susanne Bier
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