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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. – 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 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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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. – Miguel de Cervantes

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We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? – Ellen Goodman

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A mother who is really a mother is never free. – Honore de Balzac

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Home lifes great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. Ive reached this sort of wonderful precipice. – Ryan Phillippe

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I think Im extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like youre getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that. – Skeet Ulrich

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Ive done four other films since Submarine, so thats quite cool. Its just good to have people respect your work Ive never had that before. Yeah, my life has changed crazy. Im a kid from a small town in south Wales, I play my Xbox usually and all that sort of stuff, and its a whole new world. – Craig Roberts

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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. – Ramakrishna

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I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that Im worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they dont, I gave it all that I had to this game. – Rafael Palmeiro

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