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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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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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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

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Ignorance & Stupidity
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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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Im very comfortable with failure. Im very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people. – Steven Soderbergh

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I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger. – Molly Ringwald

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Failure

But all actors go through the process, its hit and miss, you have achievement and failure. – Thomas Haden Church

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Failure

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon — instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. – Dale Carnegie

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Live Now

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life. – Alexandra Guarnaschelli

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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. – Edsger W. Dijkstra

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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work. – Plato

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