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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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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. – Allan Bloom

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Prejudice
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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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I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure. – Brett Favre

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I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry. – Rodney Alexander

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Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasnt an option to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasnt able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship. – Trisha Yearwood

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With engineering, I view this years failure as next years opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. – Gordon Moore

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It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. – Richard Whately

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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. – Al Bundy

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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