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If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
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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.
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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
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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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Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
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Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
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