"Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment."

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Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

Allan Bloom

#Keys Quotes #Self Quotes #Enlightenment Quotes

“All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that it will depend on the nature of the particular innovations that carry a cycle,... and the financial conditions and habits prevailing in the business community in each case.”
“So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.”
“Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.”
“Say planet rock, it's a sure shot.”
“I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.”
“But there was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey, they just threw the puck aside and started fighting. I saw that and I thought, 'Oh man, I'm a thug? I know some thugs and they know I'm the farthest thing from a thug.”
“Old is always fifteen years from now.”

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