Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and … - Jacques Barzun

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If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.

Jacques Barzun

Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.

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Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

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Regarding the idea of race,. . no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.

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To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

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To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

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