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• Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
• Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
• If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for…
• In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
• Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game -…
• Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in…
• An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
• It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
• The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit…
• Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are…
• 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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