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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no...
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Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be...
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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of...
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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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The Yale president must be a Yale man. Not too far to the right,...
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of...
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Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course,...