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Quote by Allan Bloom
Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as mens taste a

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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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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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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parenting
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Laziness
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Efficiency is intelligent laziness. – David Dunham

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Laziness

Some men are so lazy they wont even feed themselves. – Bible

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Laziness

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Matthew 9:37 – Bible

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Laziness

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. – Charles Dickens

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Wisdom is knowing when you cant be wise. – Paul Engle

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In the marvellous month of May
when all the buds were bursting,
then in my heart did
love arise.

In the marvellous month of May
when all the birds were singing,
then did I reveal to her
my yearning and longing. – Heinrich Heine

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Seasons

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Flattery

You have no time to do the science if youre talking to the media. – James Hansen

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Science