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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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If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would…
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England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss…
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The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like…
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Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy…
— Frank Carlucci
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and…
— Timothy Egan
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The devotees of the Lord have the Wealth and Capital of the Lord; with Guru's Advice, they carry on their trade. They…
— Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever…
— Jackie Cooper
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Some concider us Angels, Others concider us Demons, but they all concider us tools of their trade
— Master Strider
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