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Quote by Jacques Barzun
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart

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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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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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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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agencys culture. He has failed. He should go. – Richard Perle

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I do not – I never believed its better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks. – John O. Brennan

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We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence. – Bob Graham

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When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away. – Shakti Gawain

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