Jacques Barzun's Quote - Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. – Jacques Bar

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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. - Jacques Bar

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. – Jacques Barzun

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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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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. – 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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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. – Ernst Fischer

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The earth is mankinds ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, its as though one of Gods checks has bounced. – Gilbert Adair

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Ive come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, its a Greek tragedy. – Billy Joel

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Finance, like time, devours its own children. – Honore de Balzac

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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. – Robert E. Lee

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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. – Joseph Butler

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