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~ Jacques Barzun Quotes ~
« on: November 16, 2014, 01:29:56 PM »
Jacques Barzun Quotes


A French-born American historian of ideas and culture.
Jacques Martin Barzun (born November 30, 1907) is a French-born American historian of ideas and culture.

Here are some famous quotes by Jacques Barzun. 




Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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Re: ~ Jacques Barzun Quotes ~
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2014, 01:31:02 PM »
Plain English - everybody loves it demands it - from the other fellow.
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« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2014, 01:36:47 PM »
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
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Re: ~ Jacques Barzun Quotes ~
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2014, 01:37:26 PM »
Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.
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Re: ~ Jacques Barzun Quotes ~
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2014, 01:38:02 PM »
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
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Re: ~ Jacques Barzun Quotes ~
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2014, 01:38:34 PM »
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
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Re: ~ Jacques Barzun Quotes ~
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2014, 01:39:18 PM »
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.
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Re: ~ Jacques Barzun Quotes ~
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2014, 01:39:53 PM »
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
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