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Quote by Allan Bloom
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civili

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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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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Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. – Allan Bloom

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Education
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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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General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. – William Bolitho

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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. – Mahatma Gandhi

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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver. – Hermann Goering

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Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. – John Barrymore

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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. – Virginia Woolf

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Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer. – Terry Semel

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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. – David Hume

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