“ Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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“ I have always been – I think any student of history almost inevitably is – a cheerful pessimist. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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“ if one consults reason alone, one cannot assent to the articles of our faith" it was full of mysteries; "we are fools to try to explain them." This makes preaching Christianity not only a hard task but also dangerous. "Had I know, I should never have been a preacher. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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“ Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
“ Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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“ Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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“ Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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“ Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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“ In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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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. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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“ In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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“ The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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“ Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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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- Copy
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