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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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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. – 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 assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny mans ability to adapt to changing circumstances. – Stephen Bayley

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What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? – Eric Hoffer

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Why cant somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. – Maya Angelou

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Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. – Henry Rollins

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The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind. – Phaedrus

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Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them. – Richard G. Scott

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