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Quote by Allan Bloom
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradito

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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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. – 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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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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I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Because our children had had the privilege of growing up where theyd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so, you share your lives with people. – Ella Baker

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The community of living is the carriage of the Lord. – Proverb

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A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. – George Santayana

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If the copying machines that came along later had been here during the war, Im not sure the allies would have won. Wed all have drowned in paper. – Alan Dickey

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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. – Gloria Steinem

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. – Margaret Carty

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