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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

Other quotes by Jacques Barzun

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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Tennis
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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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Jacques Barzun
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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. – Aldous Huxley

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Tragedy

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. – Aristotle

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Tragedy

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

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Tragedy

Down went the owners — greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured. – W. S. Gilbert

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Tragedy

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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! – Victor Hugo

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I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his limits of fully realizing his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself. – James Agee

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Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction – namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. – Jared Diamond

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Science

You cant always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every managers got some sphere of autonomy. Dont pass the buck up the line. – Bob Anderson

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Opportunity