Jacques Barzun Quotes
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.
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Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
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In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.
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A war not only arises, but derives its nature, from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying : try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.
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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
