Conventions Quote by Jacques Barzun

“Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.”

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The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

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The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject…

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Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent,…

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Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we…

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The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

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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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The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

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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 only with…

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By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

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All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that…

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[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used…

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[The Massachusetts constitution] resembles the federal Constitution of 1787 more closely than any of the other revolutionary state constitutions. It was also drawn up…

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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality…

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I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they…

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The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention?…

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The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the…

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As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has…

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Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind…

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On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions…

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My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

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Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose…

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