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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 and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams" — Jacques Barzun
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"A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth" — Jacques Barzun
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"[Regarding the idea of] race, ... no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?" — Jacques Barzun
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"Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti" — Jacques Barzun
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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." — Jacques Barzun
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"The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers" — Jacques Barzun
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"Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred" — Jacques Barzun
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"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy." — Jacques Barzun
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"The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute." — Jacques Barzun
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"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind" — Jacques Barzun
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"Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti." — Jacques Barzun
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"In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation." — Jacques Barzun
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"It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence." — Jacques Barzun
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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 life is washed in the speechless real" — Jacques Barzun
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"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." — Jacques Barzun
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American Educator    Art   

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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap" — Jacques Barzun
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"Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made" — Jacques Barzun
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"Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole." — Jacques Barzun
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American Educator    Feelings   

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"The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment." — Jacques Barzun
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"Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified h" — Jacques Barzun
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"Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art." — Jacques Barzun
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