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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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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.

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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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Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

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Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: November 30th, 1907

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