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The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom

The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. – Christopher Lasch

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Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. – Christopher Lasch

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. – Christopher Lasch

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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. – Christopher Lasch

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Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. – George Arliss

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There is a trade off – as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. – Kenny Rogers

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. – Francis Bacon

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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I dont have. – Laura Marling

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When the entertainers of the Right arent declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, theyre pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call the Chicago way. – Thomas Frank

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I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldnt necessarily believe in. – Oliver Reed

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