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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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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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Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. – Allan Bloom

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Education
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Failure is a word unknown to me. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. – Chris Hedges

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I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I dont see a box-office failure blamed on men. – Ellen Page

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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. – Irving Babbitt

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