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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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Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.
— Henry David Thoreau
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First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts,…
— Natalie Goldberg
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There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.
— David Allen
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When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it.…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind…
— Elvis Costello
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You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.
— Jacques Barzun
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If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I grew up in Doraville, Georgia and I ate barbecued ribs and chicken fried steak, and all kinds of cheesy grits, you…
— Kathy Freston
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Goodnight, you said. Goodbye, I said. And you never thought twice about it ...
— Ream
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There was a whole different person behind that amazing personality. One who I never thought twice about; One I thought you would…
— Wendy Drummond
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