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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

Other quotes by Allan Bloom

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

Category:
Ignorance & Stupidity
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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

Category:
Failure
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Allan Bloom
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Other Quotes from
America
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The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. – William Ralph

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America

America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea. – Katherine Lee Bates

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America

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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America

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. – Henry James

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America

Random Quotes

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Evil

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States. – Richard Milhous Nixon

Category:
Watergate

We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much. – Robert Bianco

Category:
Democracy

My wife gets pampered pretty well. Shes had me trained since she was pregnant, when I started making her oatmeal with fresh berries every morning. – Michael Weatherly

Category:
Morning