American - Educator | November 30, 1907 - October 25, 2012
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.
Jacques Barzun
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A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.
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By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
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