Quote by Christopher Lasch
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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A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. – Christopher Lasch

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A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. – Christopher Lasch

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It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. – Christopher Lasch

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A nations treasure is its scholars. – Yiddish Proverb

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. – Quintus Ennius

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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. – Charles Caleb Colton

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