“ It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. ”
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“ Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. ”
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“ Many now believe that with the rise of the totalitarian State the world has entered upon a new era of barbarism. ”
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“ Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. ”
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“ Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ”
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“ Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. ”
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“ Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. ”
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“ Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. ”
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“ Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. ”
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“ Many now believe that with the rise of the totalitarian State the world has entered upon a new era of barbarism. ”
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“ Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. ”
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“ Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks. ”
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“ Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment. ”
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“ Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. ”
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“ Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. ”
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“ Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks. ”
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“ Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks. ”
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“ Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ”
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“ Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. ”
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“ Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. ”
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“ It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. ”
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“ I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. ”
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“ The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ”
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“ Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. ”
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“ The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on. ”
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“ Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. ”
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