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Allan Bloom

"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."

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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."

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Donna Grant

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

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Donna Grant

"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."

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Donna Grant

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

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Donna Grant

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

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Donna Grant

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

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Donna Grant

"Having a job does not mean living."

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Donna Grant

"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

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Donna Grant

"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."

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Donna Grant

"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

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Donna Grant

"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."

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Allan Bloom
"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."

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Allan Bloom
"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."

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Allan Bloom
"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."

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Allan Bloom
"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."

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Allan Bloom
"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."

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Allan Bloom
"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."

Living

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

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Allan Bloom
"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."

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

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Allan Bloom
"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."

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