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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
"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."
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
"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
"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator."
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