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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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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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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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Allan Bloom
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? – Allan Bloom

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Ignorance & Stupidity
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Laziness
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devils home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. – Anne Baxter

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Laziness

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

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Laziness

The hardest work of all is to do nothing. – Proverb

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Laziness

Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people. – Mihai Eminescu, translated by Oana Platon

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Laziness

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We teach people that they upset themselves. We cant change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. – Albert Ellis

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I dont know why theyre doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they dont understand the severity of the problem in this state. – Gray Davis

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. – George Washington

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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