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Quote by Allan Bloom
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. – Allan Bloom

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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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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. – Allan Bloom

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Prejudice
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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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You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. – James Agee

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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity. – Medard Boss

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The dead govern the living. – Auguste Comte

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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. РAndr̩ Maurois

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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. – Elie Wiesel

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[H]appy is he who has fasted in sincerity and truth! Happy he whose humbled heart has expanded in love! – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), “The Fasting God Regards Not,” Evangelical Me

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Whether its a 16-year old girl, or a mom, or a guy, or anybody, as long as they come up and theyre excited to meet me cause theyve had some sort of relationship with something Ive created, its the coolest thing ever. It never gets old. Its awesome. – Andy Grammer

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