"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."

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Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

Allan Bloom

#People Quotes #Deeds Quotes #Form Quotes

“That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.”
“Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride!”
“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.”
“Same-sex marriage will lead to "fathers marrying sons."”
“Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.”

Source : "Interview: Wavy Gravy : Saint Misbehavin'". Interview with Richard Whittaker, www.conversations.org. December 21, 2010.
“Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then I got lucky three more times. It is astounding to see how many writers published in the anthology have gone on to publish great story collections and novels. The anthology is a windfall for both writer and reader.”
“Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.”
“No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.”

Source : Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell (2010). “Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God”, p.41, Baker Books

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