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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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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. – Allan Bloom

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teacher
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The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers… of all men to the extent that they know. – Allan Bloom

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Community
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I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan. – Shinzo Abe

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Im hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure. – George W. Bush

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Failure

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. – Tony Robbins

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Whenever you leave behind failure you’re doing good. If you think everything you’ve done is great, you’re probably dumb. – Louis C.K.

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Failure

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If you tell the truth, you dont have to remember anything. – Mark Twain

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Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. – David Byrne

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[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity… like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral… – Coleman Barks

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I came, I saw, I conquered. – Julius Caesar

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