Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
From Jacques Barzun
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
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.
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
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