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Tends Quotes by Jacques Barzun
- The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.
- Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where…
- Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:…
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