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"Plain English" - everybody loves it demands it - from the other fellow.


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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.



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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.



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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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The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.



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If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.



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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.



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Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.





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