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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

Category:
Laziness
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Allan Bloom
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? – Allan Bloom

Category:
Ignorance & Stupidity
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Other Quotes from
Failure
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. – P. J. ORourke

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Failure

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. – Xavier Becerra

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Failure

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

Failures not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger. – Billy Dee Williams

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Failure

Random Quotes

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game. – Eric Alterman

Category:
Learning

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. – Stanislav Grof

Category:
Death

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough. – Albert Einstein

Category:
Future

I didnt feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyones leg. – Peter Storey

Category:
Sympathy