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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

~Jacques Barzun

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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 life is washed in the speechless real.

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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.

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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

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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.

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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 a form of injustice.

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If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: November 30th, 1907

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