Quote by Allan Bloom
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. - Al

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. – 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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parenting
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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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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? – Allan Bloom

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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. – Philip James Bailey

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America

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks. – John Barrymore

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America

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. – Hansell B. Duckett

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America

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. – G.K. Chesterton

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America

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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. – Phillips Brooks

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Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. – Brad Thor

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I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. Whats life without a sense of humor? – Mayer Hawthorne

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No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life. – Jimmy Connors

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dad