| History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. |
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- Jacques Barzun |
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| That is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist. |
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- Jacques Barzun |
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| If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. |
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- Jacques Barzun |
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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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- Jacques Barzun |
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| Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. |
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- 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. |
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- Jacques Barzun |
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| It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. |
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- Jacques Barzun |
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