Quote by Jacques Barzun
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun

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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on ones share in the worlds work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. – Jacques Barzun

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Intelligence
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Tennis belongs to the individualistic past – a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. – Jacques Barzun

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A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones. – Alasdair Chalmers Macintyre

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In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson

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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. – G. W. F. Hegel

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Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst. – Charles A. Garfield

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