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Jacques Martin Barzun
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"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." -
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Jacques Martin Barzun
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Top 5 quotes from Jacques Martin Barzun
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
"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."
"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."
"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."
"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."
Top 5 quotes from America, Art, Baseball, Desires, Knowledge, Learning, Wants, Wisdom
"A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over."
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."
"Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner."
"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."
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