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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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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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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. – Allan Bloom

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Prejudice
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Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as mens taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure has become entertainment. – Allan Bloom

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Laziness
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Failure
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At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye. – Elisabetta Canalis

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But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock. – Don Nickles

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Failure

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didnt want to let them down. – Jerry Rice

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Failure

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches. – George Edmund Street

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Failure

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If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what youre going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money. – Russell Simmons

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We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree. – Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Money buys many things… The best of which is freedom. – Mary Renault

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Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies. – Alex Winter

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