Quote by Allan Bloom
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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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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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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 is a word unknown to me. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Failure

If youre not failing every now and again, its a sign youre not doing anything very innovative. – Woody Allen

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Failure

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. – Nigel Farage

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Failure

Failure is always an option. – Adam Savage

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Failure

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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. – Auguste Rodin

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The secret of happiness is something to do. – John Burroughs

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How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink? – Author Unknown

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He who hath many friends hath none. – Aristotle

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