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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Jacques Barzun
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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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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
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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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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
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