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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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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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Im an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. – Johnny Depp

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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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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. – Dorothy Day

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One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose. – Jean Anouilh

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I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics. – Joan Cusack

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One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. – Iris Murdoch

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