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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

Other quotes by Allan Bloom

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 failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is. – Allan Bloom

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Failure
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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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Laziness
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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

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others. – Oscar Wilde

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Laziness

Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy. – Proverb

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Laziness

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy. – Matthew Broderick

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Laziness

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No things could seem further apart than the doubt of grey and the decision of scarlet. Yet grey and red can mingle, as they do in the morning clouds… – G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”

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Crayons & Colors

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women. – Michelle Bachelet

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Equality

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. – Thom Yorke

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It doesn’t matter how deep into a posture you go, what matters is who you are when you get there. – Max Strom

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