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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with J >> Quotes By Jacques Martin Barzun |
| Quote #1: | "If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real." |
| Quote #2: | "In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation." |
| Quote #3: | "Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." |
| Quote #4: | "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." |
| Quote #5: | "The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind." |
| Quote #6: | "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." |
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