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Education is the movement from darkness to light. - Allan Bloom

Education is the movement from darkness to light. – Allan Bloom

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. – Allan Bloom

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Culture
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is. – Allan Bloom

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Failure
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I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. – Bernard Keble Sandwell

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890

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You learn something every day if you pay attention. – Ray LeBlond

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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. – Mohammed

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Theres no religion but sex and music. – Sting

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Its not only imagination, its the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people. – Olivier Martinez

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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. – Mahatma Gandhi

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So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. Theres just more going on. Its an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing. – Kurt Loder

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