Jacques Barzun Quotes
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things.
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You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
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I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.
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There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.
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It's not my fault being the biggest and the strongest. I don't even exercise!
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I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
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She [me muse] feels most at home in autumn, nonetheless, she is glad of the other seasons and loves them all. Without the others she would be unable to feel most at home in autumn, besides which, she almost feels most at home in all of them.
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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
